[TriLUG] How to get laptop earphone jack to work?

[Phillip Rhodes]

Steve Litt wrote:
> When I run aumix, there are three sliders: Volume, which works perfectly, 
> Line, which will not let me set it at anything but 100%, and Mic, which again 
> will not let me set it at anything but 100%.
>
> What can I do to drive powered external speakers from this laptop?
>
>   
Do you happen to know what audio chipset this is?  The Intel HDA stuff 
is known
to frequently have this problem with Linux.  I had some trouble getting 
the headphone
jack to work with my new Toshiba, it ultimately took a kernel upgrade to 
make it work
in my case, but other people have had success fiddling with different 
parameters passed
to the kernel module.


TTYL,

-- 
Phillip Rhodes
Chief Architect - OpenQabal
https://openqabal.dev.java.net