I've discovered that the connector inside the computer was not seated properly on the mother board for the front headphone jack. I've now got sound coming out of the headphones.
However the sound continues to come out of the desktop speakers even when the headphones are plugged in and sound is coming out of the headphones. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1038660 Title: Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't switch sound to headphones when I plug them into my computer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1038660/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs