Pedroski

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I don't want to get in trouble for double-posting, but perhaps this is better asked here, not in Fedora.
I just installed Fed. 11
The sound didn't work.
I read a lot and searched around, found:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...problems+sound

Now I have sound, can play a CD! Woohoo!

But: if I plug in my external speakers, no sound! Boohoo¡¿

Anyone know how to solve this? I have an Asus Laptop. Before I upgraded Ubuntu, everything worked. Now nothing works in Ubuntu, so I installed Fed on another partition.

tom4everitt

I believe I had a similar (or possibly the opposite) problem some time ago, i.e that the speaker worked but the head phone jack sound didn't.

The solution I found was to install kmix (the sound manager for kde). It has some parameters in the GUI that the Gnome sound manager is missing, one of these is the specific activation of the head phone jack sound. Simply activating that once from kmix solved it for me (I never had to run kmix again). I also found that it had the option of letting both the head phone jack sound and the normal sound be activated simultaneously, which was sort of neat.


You can probably install it with

su -c 'yum install kmix'

in fedora, or

sudo apt-get install kmix

in ubuntu.

Pedroski

Well thanks. Fedora won't install kmix. It lets me install the package kdemultimedia xxxx, which includes kmix. But kmix is not installed. I saw what you are talking about on another distro. I will get KDE installed and get rid of Fedora.

Pedroski

That didn't work for me I'm afraid! Still stuck with no sound on the jack-plug output. If I put the jack-plug half in and twiggle it, I do get some sound out of external the speakers. Weird!@??

tom4everitt

I googled it quickly, and it seems like the kmix package is called kdemultimedia-kmix in Fedora.

Pedroski

Thanks. I've come to the conclusion this is a hardware problem. Nothing I have tried works! I'll take the laptop to an Asus dealer.