On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:54:00PM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
>>
>>* If I boot and start Gnome, I get audio from the speakers. If I plug in
>> headphones I get no audio from them, but I continue to get audio from the
>> speakers.
>>
>>This is my biggest issue since if I make the mistake of booting with my
>>headphones plugged in the only way to get audio is to reboot.
>
>Although it might be a hardware issue, you should first try unloading the
>sound drivers and reloading them before you reboot.
>Eg, service alsa stop
>service alsa start
>
>Or look in /etc/modprobe.conf to find the sound drivers and unload them
>modprobe -r <nameofdriver>
You're quite right. I've started doing that. Much quicker for testing.
>>have are master, pcm, capture, and input source (which I can't actually
>>change).
>
>Sorry, no sound card I have ever seen has tone controls. It is up to the
>software to decide what the sound is that is delivered to the soundcard. A
>sound card is not a mixer.
Well... it can be, no? The Audigy 2 in my desktop machine and even the ac97
bits in my old laptop both presented treble and bass sliders via alsamixer.
>I have no idea what "I can't actually change" means
It means just that. There is an item visible in alsamixer labelled "input
source" and I cannot seem to effect any sort of change on it.
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