[SOLVED] Audio Jack plug problem!

hi
so here is my situation, i get NO sound on my laptop speakers when i boot up my computer. however i have sound from the headphone if the headphone jack is connected/ or if it's not connected, i will get sound from the headphones when i connected it. then i will get sound back on my laptop speakers when i disconnect the headphone jack!!!
so basically every time i need to get sound from my speakers after boot up and login, the way is to connect my headphone disconnect it.
is there any way to fix this?
thanks from advance
Last edited by choolz (2015-02-11 17:41:38)

soldier1184 wrote:that's going to be either an install related issue or your actual hardware is fucked because from my understanding of the garbled sentence is that you plug in your headphones you get laptop speaker sound an headphone sound when connected .....check your hardware make sure there is nothing grounding anything out ( ie screw wire etc ) an if that's no the case then check with alsa ( if you have alsa-utils installed ) type alsamixer set your default then google a search on how to set default audio within arch linux hope that helps
no i don't get laptop sound while having my headphone jack connected.
this is surely a software issue not hardware and i'll tell you why. this is my everyday routine when i turn on the laptop:
1- i have no sound on the speaker. i have no headphone jack connected. when i turn the volume up and down i still have no sound.
2- i connect the headphone jack, i get sound from the headphones. when i turn the volume up and down, the volume in the headphone goes up and down
3- when i disconnected the headphone, i then get my sound back on my laptop speakers.
so if i don't connect my headphone, or if i'm somewhere with my laptop that i don't have a headphone, i can't get my sound out of my laptop speakers.
it's like the system doesn't know anything about sound before the headphone jack is connected....

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