> -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:20 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations > > > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:58 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > > I tried googling around but no helpful content so far. I have a laptop > > with built-in sound. It uses the HDA_intel kernel module. My problem is > > that I can't silence the onboard/built-in speakers when I plug in the > > headphones to the machine. Muting sound would lead to all jacks and > > audio ports to be silenced -- not just the built-in speakers, which I > > intend to mute solely leaving sound alive on the headphone jacks. There > > are no channels readily observable to differentiate where sound goes and > > to which port with alsa-mixer. The behavior I would like to achieve is > > one that will allow me to mute onboard speakers while continuing to have > > the headphones receive audio signals. Has anyone ever done this? Any > > pointers to documentation will be appreciated. > > Does it work with Windows? I'd expect such things to be implemented i > hardware.
Yeah, it worked with Vista, when I first bought and booted it, before I nuked it off my system. It should be implemented in the hardware but to save a few gates it is not done. They leave it up to software engineers, which is alright when you publicly provide the documentation on how to do it. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
