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