plugging in headphones or speakers doesn't disable my laptop's built in speakers

moljac024 · 11-27-2007, 03:23 PM

When i plug in my speakers or headphones in the jack on my laptop i expect the laptop's own small speakers to stop playing sound. However i get double sound output, both through the plugged in headphones/speakers and the laptop's speakers. Is this normal laptop behavior ? I don't think it should be... I'm running fedora 8 with KDE, pulseaudio and Kmix. How could i fix this ?

camorri · 11-28-2007, 09:48 AM

It is a hardware function to disable the laptop speakers. When you poke the speaker plug in, it should open the circuit to your laptop speakers. This has nothing to do with the OS.

Are you sure you are plugging in the speakers in the correct hole? You might need to look in the hardware documentation to verify.

moljac024 · 11-28-2007, 10:20 AM

It's not a hardware malfunction as i checked another laptop of the same model and it does the same thing....so must be two sound controllers or something like that...

kotnik · 11-28-2007, 10:40 AM

Well, there are some laptops (as mine is) where nothing happens if you plug headphones in. And I've heard that 'that other' operating system doesn't have that problem. I never had anything on my laptop except GNU/Linux, so I can't confirm that. But, when I plug headphones, speakers are still on. I just got used to it

moljac024 · 11-28-2007, 02:13 PM

The other laptop i tried it on was running that other OS

I guess it's laptop related...thanks, though!

heffo_j · 12-08-2007, 07:49 PM

Hi there,

this is a perennial problem, depending on the thoroughness of the kernel testers I believe. I solved this With ALSA driver 1.0.14 and an older kernerl. I was able to get all the functions working properly. Since my latest kernel upgrade, and trying an even newer ALSA driver, The problem remains.

I am running Linux Mint on an HPdv2000t series laptop.

IN short, yes it can be finxed. No, my usual trick of updating the ALSA driver did not fix the problem this time.

Cheers
John H

kotnik · 12-11-2007, 07:22 AM

I'll try to upgrade my alsa drivers (I use Etch's 1.0.13), and we'll see...

Thanks for the hint Heffo

the_ultimate_samurai · 12-11-2007, 09:09 AM

i have this "problem" on my pc. i like it because i can plug in 2 sets of speakers and have it output to both. the pc had windows but under windows it didnt do this. i just thought it was a cool feature unique to linux (ive been trying to get the two to output as suround sound...not sure if i can but it would be cool)

either way, just mute the audio on your laptop speakers, that will allow it to output exclusively to the pluged in speakers...

moljac024 · 12-18-2007, 07:42 AM

There is a fix for this here http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9446

It says it's for acer laptops but it works on my msi. I now have a headphone switch in kmix and turning it off mutes the laptop speakers.

I also mentioned this in my previous post: This also happens with windows on this laptop model, so it's not a linux bug. Maybe it's a bug that you can't mute the speakers but i believe windows won't let you do it as well....

kotnik · 12-18-2007, 09:38 AM

I'll try this, since my laptop's sound card is snd_hda_intel powered

silin · 04-12-2008, 03:02 PM

I also have this problem on my Samsung X11 laptop running mandriva one 2007 spring. I have alsamixer v1.0.14rc2. I read somewhere that in alsamixer one can set the headphone jack, but I can't find the way to do this. The info page is also not really enlightening. When I go to the sound mixer under the setting tab I see:

Mix
Caller ID
External Amp
Off-hook

Is any of these related to the issue. My own playing around a bit didn't make a difference on anything. Does anyone know what could be done to solve the problem?

Zibi1981 · 02-18-2009, 09:24 AM

I also have this problem on my MSI MegaBook GX600P. My audio chip is using snd_hda_intel module and is Sound Blaster compatible. At the moment I'm using kernel version 2.6.28.4 and ALSA ver. 1.0.19. Every time I plug-in my headphone on my Arch Linux machine, I can hear voice from both, the built-in speakers and the headphones. This problem doesn't exist on Vista.
Any help appreciated

Stéphane Ascoët · 07-13-2017, 06:01 AM

It was working flawlessly until yesterday, when I upgraded from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie and now I can't find any solution anywhere on the Web... Would I be forced to disconnect internal speaker cable?

kilgoretrout · 07-13-2017, 07:46 AM

This may be solvable using the pulse audio volume control. If it's not installed already, install it with:

Code:

# apt-get install pavucontrol

then launch the application, click on the "Output Devices" tab and see if you can mute the speakers there.

Stéphane Ascoët · 07-13-2017, 08:01 AM

Thanks, but when I launch it in command line or in X it tells me there isn't any Pulse server... and I didn't find any reliable way to know witch sound server the system is using