Laptop speakers off when plug in headphones

garyozzy · 02-02-2006, 02:21 PM

Is there a way to turn in my built-in laptop speakers when i plug in headphones?

tronica · 02-02-2006, 03:02 PM

are you saying when you plug in your headphones the built in speakers go off, becuase i believe some do that on purpose. But having the specific model of your laptop would help.

garyozzy · 02-02-2006, 03:07 PM

Sorry for not being clearer.

I have a Dell Inspiron B120.

In Windows, when I plug in headphones, the built-in speakers turn off.

In Linux, the speakers do not turn off--but the headphones work all the same.

I would like to be able to listen to something in the headphones but not through the speakers.

tronica · 02-02-2006, 03:23 PM

the only thing I can think of is to go into volume control and mute the pc speaker.

garyozzy · 02-02-2006, 03:31 PM

didn't work....

tronica · 02-02-2006, 03:32 PM

in the volume control, there should be and option for pc speaker and pc speaker playback, try messing with those.

Charred · 02-02-2006, 04:32 PM

That should be a hardware switch, i.e. inserting the jack opens the circuit to the speakers and diverts current to the headphones. Are you inserting the jack fully?

lioncoeur · 02-04-2006, 11:47 AM

This is a problem on many Dells. If you go to the Linux Laptops website and look at the guy's webpage who is installing Gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 1300, you will see he has the same problem. I'd post a link, but I haven't reached 5 posts yet, so I can't

Anyway, he can't find a solution for it either, and neither can I. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Looking_Lost · 02-04-2006, 02:44 PM

When I was using my onboard sound chip with kde I used the sound mixer "Switch" option and had an option to turn off/on "headphone jack sense" (or something like that) which alternatively muted/unmuted the built in speakers, maybe your sound mixer has the same thing for your particular sound setup.