After upgrade to karmic I've the same issue. Then I open alsamixer in a console and I found that it show 2 bars labeled "Speaker" in the Playback tab. The second one was muted and after unmute the speaker now I got sound when the headphones are connected.
There is no option in the Sound Preferences panel to do that. How this help. $ aptitude show pulseaudio Package: pulseaudio State: installed Version: 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu3 $ uname -r 2.6.31-14-generic cat /etc/*release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10" -- KARMIC: headphones output not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs