Headphones and ubuntu 12.04 (again)

Question

As the title says. The description is classical: the internal speaker works but plugging in headphones makes it go silent. I did try to install DKMS but it still doesn't work.

lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

and

cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC269VC
Codec: Intel PantherPoint HDMI

I sort of suspect it has something to do with setting the options in

 analog-output-headphones.conf

or maybe a kernel update from today because yesterday the headphones were working :(

edit:

following MarkPaskal's suggestion i get this (when the headphones are plugged in):

Answer 1

that answer did it for me.....

So basically, you type:

ctrl-alt-t

to fire up a terminal

sudo apt-get autoremove pulseaudio

sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer

you reboot and it will work. The sound was too weak and a bit metallic initially but i could fix that by typing

alsamixer

in a terminal and tuning things from there... (i had tried to tune things with alsamixer before rm-ing pulseaudio but it was not working)