Earphones - no sound

Dave Sampson samper.d at gmail.com
Sat Dec 30 23:36:54 UTC 2006


Try,

desktop>preferences>sound volume

First,
    file>change device
Select the alsa mixer device if you KNOW alsa already works.

Select edit>preferences

select the following with a checkmark:
* PCSpeakers
* PCM
* Headphone
* Master

make sure nothing in muted with a red X. try not to have the earphone 
sin your ears when trying this, hate for you to blow a gaket and loose 
control of your faculties.

This attempt assumes that fedora recognizes your soundcard and can use the

Alright, so what if this fails.... yhea yhea I know.... alright open a 
terminal

$Alsamixer

this brings up a non-mouse gui... navigate with cursors

Find the following selections and try using the 'M' button. 
M=Mute/unmute. again be careful

heck try unmuting everything. if this works then read the ALSA docs on 
how to save these setting for the next time you boot. And get the fedora 
gui working.

have fun

David G. Miller 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.
>>   
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>




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