On Monday 17 November 2003 04:18 pm, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Monday 17 November 2003 03:36 pm, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > >>I have a laptop running Gentoo with the newest stable ALSA > >> drivers. The internal speakers work fine, but when I plug in my > >> external speakers, I get no sound out. Yes, they're plugged in, > >> the volume is turned up, etc. These are analog speakers plugged > >> into the laptop's headphone jack. > >> > >>Is there some kind of option to toggle analog ouput or something? > > > > Are the speakers amplified? A headphone jack lacks the power to > > push unamplified speakers You might do better if you had a "line > > out" jack. > > Yeah, they are. This is a Creative Inspire 5500 set. The headphone > jack goes to my powered subwoofer, which in turn goes to my > speakers. It works great in Windows and with OSS drivers in Debian.
Ahhh... just for fun, have you tried headphones in the jack? Chances are that the jack is muted. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
