On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Tony Whitmore <tony@???> wrote:
> AdamC wrote:
> > I am experiencing a problem on my Novatech laptop whereby sound
> > continues to play from the built-in speakers even though headphones
> > have been plugged in the jack.
> >
> > Now, I am due to call Novatech tech support about this issue, but I
> > wanted to clear up the possibility of it being a software problem
> > before wasting a lot of time on the phone waiting for them to answer
> > me.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to investigate whether this is possibly a
> > software problem?
>
> I had this on my Samsung Q45. No audio came out of the headphone socket
> at all. Then I enabled the headphone tick box on the Volume Control
> (mixer) applet. This enabled both the speakers and the headphone output.
> I had to mute the sound via the speaker icon in the Gnome toolbar to
> quieten the speakers. The headphone output still worked.
>
> You don't mention what distribution you are using, so I can only give my
> example.
Thanks Tony - I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 - and tried the settings you
suggested. However, the headphone setting made no difference at all to
the volume of the headphones, whereas the 'Front' setting changed both
the headphone and the built-in speakers, again simultaneously.
Adam
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