Bad-ish sound driver??

[Ihatewindows]

My sound driver on my desktop is driving me bananas. When I plug in my headphones, the sound comes out of my speakers. Everything else about the driver seems to work fine, things like overamping and such. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I use Realtek audio so it's not like it's uncommon.

And I'm using my iPhone, not a mac!!!!

[ozjd]

Run alsamixer in a terminal as you not root. Press F6 to select your sound card. Look for an option to automute for the headphones, you may have it. Some cards show that option but others don't. My laptop doesn't but my desktop does.

As far as I know if the option isn't shown you can't do anything to add it, if someone knows better I love to find out how. Then all you can do is mute the speakers and unmute the headphones in alsamixer or pavucontrol.

[stevea]

Better yet - run 'pavucontrol'. Alsa-mixer can find/control some things that pavucontrol can't see, but 96% of the time it's merely a matter choosing the appropriate input/output among the options.

[Ihatewindows]

Is that a permanant thing? I mean that I will always have to have something in my headphone jack in order to hear something?

Better yet - run 'pavucontrol'. Alsa-mixer can find/control some things that pavucontrol can't see, but 96% of the time it's merely a matter choosing the appropriate input/output among the options.

[ozjd]

Originally Posted by IHATEWINDOWS

Is that a permanant thing? I mean that I will always have to have something in my headphone jack in order to hear something?

Once you've chosen the output it stays set until you change it again. If you only use headphones you won't need to touch it.

Only alsamixer may show the automute option, pavucontrol doesn't have it.

[Ihatewindows]

Geez, I'm not going to be able to try all this because GRUB imploded.

[ozjd]

When you do get things running again and you want to be able to switch outputs easily look at this - https://gyesps.wordpress.com/2012/11...-fedoraubuntu/