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...
Thanks Aaron, Martin, and Richie for your replies... After a lot of
searching and using your suggestions I did find a solution. I set my
source repositories to fetch the latest KDE software and also the latest
audio software from the OpenSuSE site and upgraded everything to the
latest bleeding edge stuff.. That got my headphone jack working though I
do not have any way to select or control the headphone in KMix yet...
But at least it works and I can live with it, though my opinion of
software controlled headphone jacks remains somewhat lower than a toilet
seat!
Wandering around now in the headphones alternate realities.... Marc...
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