I see similar behavior on my ThinkPad T61, and I can work around it through Sound Preferences (right-click on the volume applet). There is a drop-down there which selects between headphone output and speaker output.
Apparently, connecting the headphones disables the speakers, but doesn't flip this toggle? Note I'm running the ubuntu-audio-dev PPA with the latest pulseaudio etc. -- Headphone jack regression in 2.6.31-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396563 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs