Lenovo N100 with Intel Sound Card (Speakers Issue)

Hello.
I was trying to deal with it but no luck on finding any info. The issue is that then I plug external speakers the laptop ones don't mute.
Notebook: Lenovo N100
SoundCard: Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Kernel: 2.6.17-beyond (from official package)
Alsa: 1.0.3 (official package)
Any one had a similar issue with more or less similar hardware?
Peace.

Hi,
I have very similar problem, my speakers are working, but if I want plug headphones into jack plug-in is nothing happen, speakers are still playing and I couldnt hear anything in headphones.
Laptop: HP Pavilion dv2058ea
[root@mariusz ~]# lspci |grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
[root@mariusz ~]# uname -a
Linux mariusz 2.6.19-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 12 12:47:42 CET 2006 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
[root@mariusz ~]#
System after "pacman -Suy".
P.S Sorry for my english, i cant write very well.
EDIT
It was simple problem. I had to recompile kernel without ALSA and install the newest alsa-drivers 1.0.14rc1. Now is working. I hope that this will add to Arch, because this what I've done is unusual and temporary.

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