Re: Earphones - no sound

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 05:18 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 01:49 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
So, I buy a pair of earphones so that I can continue watching YouTube
while my wife sleeps, and I find that when I plug them into my laptop,
the sound disappears! When I unplug it, the sound comes back on from
my laptop speakers. I looked into the Volume Control and tried
twiddling with 'alsamixer', but cannot figure out which control to set
to get the sound into my earphones.

See if there's a separate volume control for headphones. You might have
to look for some extra headphone related switches, in the volume control
preferences.

Are you plugging them into a headphone socket? If you plug into a line
socket, there mightn't be enough power to drive a pair of headphones.

Tim, I bet you dollars to donuts that is the problem. If the earbuds
will work in a transistor radio, then that is a line-out jack for an
external amplifier and not a speaker-out. Pascal, get some cheapo
amplified external speakers and plug your earbuds into the jack on the
side. That'll work. It's what I do here.

Pascal's better-half will beat him senseless if he disturbs her sleep.
<cackles> Ric

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