On 2022-06-22 23:39, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-06-22 23:25, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 6/22/22 15:22, Dave Howorth wrote:
If I pull the jack half a millimeter, the "detection" fails and both play sound.
I could try another desktop. Faulty jack socket?
That sounds likely given the half a millimeter wiggle.
Other possibility is worn insulation ring on the male plugin. Not as likely, but if your headphones are old, something to look at.
Nope.
This is not a hardware problem, it is a software problem.
It is not hardware muting the headphones, it is the software which mutes them. The hardware simply tells (correctly) that the headphones are plugged, and the software reacts silencing everything.
If I wiggle out a bit the jack, the hardware does not tell the software that the headphones are connected, and thus both headphones and loudspeakers get sound.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)