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Headphones don't work with Ubuntu 8.10

Asked by laddie600

Hello. I am a total newbie at Ubuntu, and I seem to be fumbling along somehow without killing my laptop yet. I cannot get the headphones to work in my laptop, but I have no problems at all with my speakers. I plug in my headphones, and the speakers don't work. I unplug the headphones, and the speakers work. I have no clue what that is about. I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4656 with a Realtek ALC861-VC installed for sounds. The thing is, I've tried different music players, like Rhythmbox and Audacious, to no avail. Similar thing occurs when I watch movies using the Totem Movie Player. After installing the Ubuntu, I had no sound problems either with the speakers, just the headphones. If anyone might have a clue what the problem is, answers/guesses would be appreciated. If I'm doing something wrong, correction would also be appreciated. Thanks!

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Matthew Lye (matthew.lye) said : 		#1

You might have the volume muted, or set to nothing, on the front speaker input.

If sound is working it isn't going to be a driver issue, so its configuration, or hardware.

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laddie600 (laddie600) said : 		#2

Front speaker input works fine. It's weird, because I opened my Gnome ALSA Mixer, and there was a volume control for headphones and it was turned on and balanced between the left and right. I downloaded the PulseAudio Applet package in hopes of fixing the problem, but I seem to be no closer at all. The Applet does not give me an option for headphones in the Playback section. My only Output Device is ALSA PCM on front: Realtek ALC861-VC, and the Input Devices are ALSA PCM on front: Realtek ALC861-VD and then it lists "Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on front:0 (ALC861-VD Analog) via DMA", whatever that is. You might be right about it being a configuration or hardware problem though. How would I know if it's one of those though?

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Matthew Lye (matthew.lye) said : 		#3

My honest answer on that is to try different configurations.

Might be worth looking through the sound problems sticky on the Ubuntu Forums here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

Someone else in that forum may have the solution to your problem already,

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laddie600 (laddie600) said : 		#4

holy...wow...thanks man. i hope this fixes it.

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Randy Noseworthy (randynose) said : 		#5

Hey Laddie600 did you get your headphone jack's (or Mike) sound to work? I have a Realtek ALC861-VD sound chip on my Toshiba Satellite A135-S4656, and I did have a way to get it to work WITH the laptop speakers on, with an older version of Ubuntu.

I'll check out the thread... Vantrax suggested. - But it's a 3 year old suggestion, so I don't know if it would help.

- I wish I could get back to the old work around as I could live with the headphone jack working in conjunction with the speakers, as most of the time, I'm trying to make things louder...

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laddie600 (laddie600) said : 		#6

Hey, thanks Vantrax! I dug around on the Ubuntu forums and got my headphones to work. Now the only downfall is that my headphones work at the same time as my speakers. No way to mute the speakers when the headphones are plugged in though. I will continue to dig around on the Ubuntu forums when I have time again to do so. The initial problem was solved, so I guess this thread is closed. This is the thread that helped me out! http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-823552.html