Hello, In the Message; Subject : [oS-EN] New sound problem Message-ID : <fae953aa-280a-d85e-e7c9-bd5bfe995876@telefonica.net> Date & Time: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:42:57 +0200 [CER] == "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> has written: CER> Hi, CER> I have a new sound problem. Meaning that it has been working fine until now? CER> The machine is my previous desktop machine, maybe 10 year old, running a CER> relatively new system with Leap 15.3, and XFCE desktop. I watch movies CER> on it, and the headphones do not work. CER> Sound taken from the line.out output of the sound card goes to the loud CER> speakers, and they work. If I connect the headphones on the front, I CER> hear a very low hiss on them; the loudspeakers go silent, but no actual CER> sound on the headphones. I see on the "audio mixer" gadget that output CER> changes from "line out (plugged in)" to "headphones (plugged in)", so CER> they are detected. CER> But if I take out the jack just slightly, I can get sound on both CER> devices. The mixer tool says that I have just line out. So I get working CER> headphones if I tune down the external volume control on the external CER> speakers. CER> This means that the hardware front jack is actually connected and works, CER> but the software is not working, once it detects the headphones are CER> connected and does something about it. Normally, when you connect it to the front jack on the PC, it works with the on-board sound chip, but you are using it wired to the Sound Labs X-Fi Xtreme? But still, Sound Labs X-Fi Xtreme is very old...... Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ galaxy.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "It should never be said that it is OK to ignore the theoretical as long as it becomes a tool." -- T. Mori (The original is in Japanese) --