On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 01:49 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > So, I buy a pair of earphones so that I can continue watching YouTube > while my wife sleeps, and I find that when I plug them into my laptop, > the sound disappears! When I unplug it, the sound comes back on from > my laptop speakers. I looked into the Volume Control and tried > twiddling with 'alsamixer', but cannot figure out which control to set > to get the sound into my earphones. See if there's a separate volume control for headphones. You might have to look for some extra headphone related switches, in the volume control preferences. Are you plugging them into a headphone socket? If you plug into a line socket, there mightn't be enough power to drive a pair of headphones. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.