On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:04:50PM +1100, Daniel Bush wrote: > Hi Sonia, > > On 30/11/06, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a problem with sound on my laptop, that commenced with my upgrade > >to Ubuntu Edgy - any hints on how to troubleshoot it? > > > >The problem is that when I plug in headphones, the sound keeps playing > >out the laptop speakers, thus annoying other people who have to listen > >to my atrocious taste in music :-) > > Try removing the pcspkr kernel module. Check if it's there using > lsmod. I had the same problem but when I remove it, the sound no > longer leaks from the speakers when I have my headphones in. I use > 'rmmod pcspkr' to do this. However, when I inserted it in again using > modprobe and then removed it again, the sound problem did not go away. > So there is more going on here perhaps. > > I nice side effect of removing this module is that you will also > remove the heart-attack-inducing console beep problem as well. > > Daniel.
Sonia, You don't have two volume control settings (in alsamixer for example) by any chance? One for headphone and one for speaker? metrics -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
