Headphone Jack Not Working

[nebcanuck]

A couple of questions that may help approach an answer:

1. Is it a specific program you're running that doesn't have sound? Have you tried others aside from that one to see if it's a) that specific program or b) a specific type of program causing the problem (movies, for instance).

2. Is this a new development? Had the headphones previously worked on Linux?

3. Do they work under Windows? Or could it possibly be a jack-related problem?

4. If it works under Windows but doesn't work at all under Mint, have you tried running a liveCD of some other distribution, or even a new liveCD of Mint, to see if it happens consistently in Linux, or simply under your current install?

Hopefully somewhere in there, a flag will arise.

[DrHu]

In Terminal, mint menu>Terminal

• inxi -A
  Audio: Card Creative Labs SB Audigy driver EMU10K1_Audigy
  Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.18rc
  inxi -F
  --gives a short list of your hardware specs..

--will identify the sound card data, it is likely an Intel HD chi, and there are some issues with that device on Ubuntu 9.04, which is an equivalence to Mint 7 -gloria (being that they are using most of the same repositories (software sites on the Internet))
http://www.xappsoftware.com/wordpress/?p=266
http://computersight.com/operating-syst ... buntu-904/
http://blog.wessendorf.org/software/hea ... y-t-6345u/
( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... headphones )
--looks like your issue, sound from headphones missing..

Also via the desktop, checks..
mint menu>comtrol center>hardware>sound

[igorzwx]

This sound card seems to be supported by OSS4

Audio: Card-1 Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
71 oss_hdaudio pci8086,284b Intel High Definition Audio (ICH8)

see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound
http://mercurial.opensound.com/?file/6b ... ists/Linux

Read this too:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=32173
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[hipporhinostricow]

Go to the sound control panel
In the "switches" tab, is "headphone LFE" checked?

[liaamanodel]

have you tried slowly inserting the headphone jack with them in your ears?? I has the same problem until I realized that I have to have them plugged into the jack just right. If I plug them in all the way they stop working.