It depends on the config of the card, often headphones do mute the speakers, but this is not allways true. Perhaps a little script to up the speakers might help and not break the existing config, not sure. Regards, Kerry. On 11/09/2010 6:53 PM, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Kerry Hoath<kerry at gotss.net> writes: > > >> I have found on some machines with Grml and this possibly holds true >> for arch as well that the speakers are set to 0 but headphones are >> audible and usable. >> > Yes, I use Grml's soundcard init script, adapted for Arch's init system. > Should I unmute the speaker device, since headphones work? > I'm really unsure, and input from others is most appreciated. > Personally, I always use headphones. > > >> The Intel High definition audio codecs treat the headphones and >> speakers as 2 different mixer devices sometimes more. >> > Very interesting. So the internal speaker won't go silent when > headphones or external speakers are plugged in to the machine? > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
