Re: Earphones - no sound

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

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.

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