On Nov 18 15:28:13, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 07:52:47AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote: > > The tip is disconnecting the main speakers because the tip is pushing a > > tab over that acts as a switch. You will need to get the tip out. > > It's a bit more advanced than that on most modern laptops. > > On a simple device like a cassette recorder from 30 years ago the switch > typically directly connected or disconnected the speaker. I.E. it was hard > wired to do that. > > On a modern laptop the switch is just a sensor providing input to an I/O pin > of the audio hardware. The actual routing to speaker, headphones, both, or > neither, is almost always under software control.
In particular, that's why the *_muters knob in mixerctl is a configurable knob (right?)
