On Saturday 12 January 2008 17:58:29 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--- > > 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...
I had a similar problem with my HP compaq nc6000 when I first got it. Try: Start KMix. Navigate onto the Switches tab. Right click and check the "Headphone Jack Sense" option and or the "Line Jack Sense". See http://www.rpfraser.uklinux.net/images/headphone_jack_sound.jpg for screenshot. It seems that there are loads of people on the interweb with the same problem. Google is your friend here. Search for "linux kmix headphone jack sense" -- Kind Regards, Ritchie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ritchie Fraser Web: http://www.rpfraser.uklinux.net Registered Linux User #255860
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