On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 01:49 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
You also might try the earphones with another sound source. Plugging in earphones (or external speakers) turns off the built-in speakers for my laptop and a couple of external speakers I'm familiar with. It's a feature. Could be that either the earphones are bad or they have a built-in volume control that happens to be set to off.> 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.
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