On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 07:43:35PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > 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?)
Exactly. The idea is that you can configure whether that switch, (indicating a device connected), mutes the speakers or not.
