Author: Alex Phillips Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Simultaneous sound from headphone jack and speakers
(Ubuntu 8.04)
Tony Whitmore 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.
>
> Tony
>
On my HP TC4200, running Ubuntu there was an option in the mixer panel
to "disable speakers when headphone socket is connected". When this was
enabled it "just worked"
"System>Preferences>Sound" I think, I don't have the laptop in front
of me at this moment to check it for you.
