It sounds a little like a hardware fault but clutching at straws do you have the RealTek sound card? This has a horrible plug an play feature which has unpredictable accessibility . Basically the driver for this device relies on putting up a window for you to confirm what device you have plugged in to the PC. This device will not work until you have confirmed this. If you have any sight at all this will flash up as a window when you plug your headphones in. Your screen reader should be announcing something even if navigating through this window is difficult.
Apart from that I can only suggest you update your sound card driver to eliminate any driver issues. If this does not work this does tend to point to a hardware fault. I checked my sound properties and the line out on my PC is listed as one device even though like you I can access this from the front or the back so the potential for configuration seems very limited. Regards David Griffith My Low Vision Resources Web Site is http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kate Sent: Monday, 19 January 2009 12:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] head phone jack not working Hi, I just tried a music CD in my drive and that's not the problem. My jacks are closer to the power button rather than next to the CD drive anyway. Thanks for the suggestion though. Anyone else have any ideas? Kate > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:22:42 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] head phone jack not working > > Not sure if this point has been made yet, but if you are talking of a jack > socket next to the CD/DVD drawer, on some machines, the output to that > comes direct from the player rather than from the sound card and so only > plays what is coming from your cd/dvd drive. In fact, you will still find > the odd computer where there is a volume control there as well... > > You might try putting a music CD in the player with headphones plugged in to > the jack in question, just to rule that out... > > I'm probably talking rubbish, but give it a whirl just in case... > > All the best, > Barry G > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kate" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:57 AM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] head phone jack not working > > > > Hi, thanks, but I tried that, it's not working. The speakers nor the > headphones work in either of the front two jacks, even if there's nothing > plugged into the jacks on the back of the computer. > Any other ideas, maybe? > > Kate > > > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:35:05 +0000 > > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] head phone jack not working > > > > On most computers I have used the front jacks will not work if the back > > jacks are being utilised. Have you got speakers plugged in at the back? > > > > > > Regards > > > > David Griffith > > > > My Low Vision Resources Web Site is > > http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/ > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kate > > Sent: Friday, 16 January 2009 18:41 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Blind-Computing] head phone jack not working > > > > > > Hi, I have found that the speaker/headphone jack at the front of my > > computer > > do not work. This is a year and a half old computer and I don't believe > > I've > > ever tried using these jacks before, so I do not know if they just have > > been > > disabled this whole time or what. 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