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 -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
