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... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org