No headphones sound on my Toshiba Satellite A200-1WR

Howdy Mike-d. here,
(Disclaimer) I usually just file bug reports and try to answer a question or two every once in a while.
Simplest thing first, If you looking at your computer, Are your Headphones fully plugged into the plug(port) to the right of the Headphone icon on the front of your computer, not the microphone plug on the left.
Have you tried right clicking on Speaker Icon on TaskBar in the Upper Top Right corner ? Choosing Open Volume Control and changing devices and adjusting preferences, and Left clicking speaker icon and choosing Preferences and adjusting accordingly ? Also System->Preferences->Sound: and adjust Sound Preferences ?
If you don't have volume controls for more things than you know what to do with then you have not changed to enough devices and clicked prefernces on each one enough. There is icons to click on to turn on and off things, you can tell by a red X or not.
the directions here might help you get there another way.

"Potential Lock-up Warning"
 I'm going to tell you how to pick which sound equipment you can use, but I have seen this lock-up computers before, so make sure you save or close whatever your working on and what don't want to lose in case of lock-up, I'm not talking about file erasing or anything that bad, other than that, it usually just requires you to turn -off computer and turn it on again.
o.k. to choose the built in hard ware and drivers:
Left click on System-> Preferences->Sound
Sound Preferences Window will open.
under the devices tab, Sound events, sound playback there will be the hardware detect to choose from.
you can click on the auto detect, and an annoying sound may come out, good if you had no sound before, sometimes it kind of scratchy,
you can work your way down the line on the different items, see, or hear what sounds better and go with that, it usually remembers whatever you choose.
make sure you have speakers plugged into the right place on the computer, and that they are powered either by the computer, or batteries, of electricity, or whatever.
sound capture stuff you may leave alone unless you going to record sound or incoming signals, because you won't really hear anything unless you have an active sound signal going through, and it sometimes locks up a system. I usually don't hear much or any sound from the built-in PC Speaker, or Piezo Buzzers some computers have.
good luck.
Good Luck, If you need more Info, ask for more Info.
Mike-d. out

Better directions: right clicking on Speaker Icon on TaskBar in the Upper Top Right corner. Left click on Open Volume Control. Left click File: choose change device, click the one you want to configure. Choose Playback Tab, adjust volume controls to desired level, if the one's you want are not there, left click on Edit-> Preferences: make sure to add a check mark next to device(s) you want to have a volume control for(left click check mark toggle on/off), click close. Back to Playback tab, adjust volume controls, make sure no red x on stuff you want on. red x stuff you want off.(red x toggle on/off by left clicking on icon). Check Switches and Options tabs, then left click File->Quit when you done.

oh, yeah, one more simple thing, you probably know there is a volume control switch next to headphone jack, adjust to desired level.

Howdy, miked.

Thanks a lot for all of your answers, but I tried all that before and nothing worked. It seems that the driver doesn't detect any headphones jack. I'll keep looking for a solution.

Anyway, thanks again.

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