Thanks Ray, I got sighted assistance, since I couldn’t hear VoiceOVer. The Mac saw the headphones, but somehow the volume was down to zero. I have no idea how that happened.
Thanks again, Janet On May 7, 2014, at 4:28 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > When your headphones are plugged in, if you go to System Preferences then > Sound and then the Output tab, does the output device say Internal Speakers > or Headphones? If it says Headphones then at least the Mac has noticed that > headphones are plugged in. In that same control panel make sure the mute > checkbox is not checked. The setting sticks so muting the headphones doesn't > mute the speakers and vice versa. If it says anything about "Digital Out" > then somehow the Mac things you've got a fiber optic cable connected instead > of headphones. That can sometimes be because of a stuck switch inside the > headphone jack or a software thing. One way folks have cleared the digital > optical output sticking is by having the Sound Output system preference open > while switching from headphones to speakers and back. Apparently it polls the > headphone port and can get it un-confused, if it's just a software thing. If > it's a hardware things you might be in the land of toothpicks and other > dangerous "fixes". > > CB > > On 5/7/14, 4:15 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: >> Yep, you'll need to have the entire logic board replaced. No way to put a >> new jack on because the jack is in fact printed directly in to the logic >> board. Sorry for the bad news, but, that's the long and the short of that. >> >> Very expensive to do that by the way. >> >> >> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in! >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >> >> On May 7, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Janet Ingber <janet.ing...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> The headphone jack on my Macbook Air is not working. I've tried several >>> sets of headphones without success. I've made sure that the the part that >>> goes into the computer is all the way in. I have a USB headset and that >>> works fine. Any ideas? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> Janet >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
