On Wed, Jul 13 2016, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:55 PM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> Hardware: Dell Latitude E7450 laptop >> >> Gentoo essentially all stable >> Gnome / Systemd >> >> When I play a movie using totem it sounds fine if no headphones are >> plugged it. >> >> No sound at all with headphones (I tried three different ones). >> >> The sound settings gui recognizes that headphones are in. The sound >> test is silent. If I select the internal speakers in the gui (with the >> headphones still in) sound is fine. >> >> Is there some headphone option I must enable in the kernel or elsewhere? > > The volume is probably muted for the headphones. Install pavucontrol, > and execute it while the movie is playing. In the "Output Devices" tab > look for your sound card (probably something like "Built-in Audio"), > and in port select "Headphones". Then adjust the volume. > > Regards.
Thank you (and robot1). I installed pavucontrol and followed your instructions. The volume was selected in the middle (100%). We see a volume meter going up and down as expected with either headphones or speakers selected. When mute is pressed the meter looks dead, as expected. It also shows line-out is unplugged and headphones are plugged it. Any thoughts. I appreciate the help. allan
