> On Nov 18, 2025, at 13:45, Jan Stary <[email protected]> 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?)
If you are comfortable doing a little laptop surgery, you may have a few options. I have seen some laptops where the audio jack is on a daughter board connected via a ribbon cable. If you can't get the headphone tip out, the replacement daughter board shouldn't be too expensive. If the audio out is on a daughter board, you may further be lucky and get audio back by disconnecting said daughter board if it exists and the speakers are connected to the motherboard. YMMV, as no model #'s were mentioned. Good luck on the repair.
