My notebook is vaio fz160.My headphone does not work on it.

If sound is working, then it must be the settings. Check mixer.
If the headphone has a separate sound card (rare) then see whether the proper modules are loaded.

If you still have the problem, then post the sound part of
# sudo lshw

and

# sudo lsmod


Best


A. Mani

amani has suggested some possible ways of investigating the software, but this could be a hardware issue.

Quite often, plugging in headphones will switch a mechanical switch to redirect sound from the speakers to the headphones. If this is the case with your system, then plugging in headphones should cause the sound to cut out; does this happen?

There is often a different impedance between the headphone jack output and the line-out jack used for speakers. It may seem obvious, but make sure you are plugging the headphones into the right socket; if you have a spare set floating around then can you try plugging speakers into the same socket?