Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - Well it seems that, on my fancy dancy HP Pavilion laptop, some
braindead engineer decided it was a good idea to replace/"upgrade" the
good old fashioned style (tried and true) of audio headphone jacks with
something that requires software to use it. What ever happened to the
KISS principal, in particular that headphone jacks used to ALWAYS simply
disconnect internal speakers and mechanically reroute sound to the
headphones when you plugged one into its jack? As you (poor reader) can
probably surmise I just discovered this "wonderful" feature about my
laptop because when I plug in my headphones under Windows they work, but
under SuSE 10.2 it does not.....
So guess I got to hold my nose, because this new headphone jack design
STINKS!!!!, IMHO and ask this group for help to gain the advance wisdom
and knowledge about how to use headphones from some kind guru... This
SHOULD have been a duck soup simple task and apparently has now become
yet another fine example of how computers are being redesigned to
frustrate us poor users---
Have you written to HP and asked them if they have any
drivers for this laptop and its ridiculous hardware?
How do I get my headphones to work under SuSE 10.2 so I can listen to
music played via Amorak at work (without getting shot by my co-workers
because they may NOT happen to like my particular tastes)? I have look
at the settings in Yast, KMix, KDE's Personal Settings, and fooled
around with em, all to no avail....
Lost in the headphones wilderness... Marc...
As I said... talk to HP, and complain...LOUDLY.
And it always helps to mention that if a simple issue
like this cannot be resolved, you will advise AGAINST
the purchase of any HP laptops where you work, because
the current busines plan is to NEVER migrate
from XP to Vista... but Linux and OS X are not out of
the question -- so what are they willing to do to
to reassure you that further purchases of HP equipment
will be a good decision at the place where you work.
The threat of losing sales to competitors is
a very effective tool in cases like this.
I use it not only with regards to equipment at
work (when I feel the vendor isn't giving us
satisfactory support), but also with anything
else I own from a vendor which could reasonably
makes sales in the business sector.
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