On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 09:02 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 20:16 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > > On 25/05/12 19:28, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > To get the system un-muted you > > > have to press one of the other two sound-control buttons. > > > > We can rule this out. Whether the mute button is a toggle, I tried > > turning the volume up all the way with the adjacent volume-up button, > > and it makes a difference to the headphone jack, but the speakers are > > still off. Basically, it seems to control sound for both outputs. > > > > --Aidan > > I'm interested if it's a software problem and you find a solution. I > have the same problem but not on a laptop, on a PC. Sound is ok on the > front sockets for headphones and microphone, but nothing is coming out > of the speakers' output in the back. When volume is at maximum I can > hear a bit of static in the speakers when I plug the wire in. > > It's not a hardware problem, this PC being new out-of-the-box from a > source I trust. > > Eventually I resorted to re-direct all output to HDMI for now. > > Adrian > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
To update my situation with this, for me it was indeed a software problem, although I cannot say what was wrong. It all started working as it should after a clean install of Fedora 17. Cheers, Adrian _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
