On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev <delop...@yahoo.com> wrote: > nothing is wrong - you may have many input/outputs. you have to figure out > which controls are for the headphones. Unfortunately it depends on your > card. Mostprobably you have to assign the correct output to your > application. > > In alsamixer I see many headphone controls and if I plug into the headphone > jack it works fine > In the mixer (both alsa and xfce) I have only one "Headphones" volume control. Probably irrelevant, I also have "IEC958" switches and "IEC958 Playback Source" options; no idea what these are for.
I am not familiar with JACK. I just tried starting it from qjackctl, but JACK failed to start. > amixer | grep Head > Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 > Simple mixer control 'Headphone as Line Out',0 > Simple mixer control 'Headphone',1 > li...@debian-liv:~$ amixer | grep Head Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 This is the relevant part from amixer: Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Front Left: Playback 60 [94%] [-3.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 60 [94%] [-3.00dB] [on] As far as I can see here, the headphone levels are just fine. When headphones are plugged, though, the audio is simply not switched to these. > Also you can play with .asounrd > > # from http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix > pcm.headset { # playback only on frontpanel headset > type route > slave.pcm dmixer > slave.channels 8 > ttable.0.0 1 # headphones front L > ttable.1.1 1 # headphones front R > } > Before I try this one, would there be anything I could with the first two? Thank you Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org