hi,

when I plug in my headphones, the speakers is still on.

I am aware that this is a common problem, but all the solutions I have seen have been on a different level, I don't know much about computers, and I had all to much trouble installing the OS to go and fiddle where I don't belong.

the speakers are terrible,so turning them completely off would be as good a solution as any.

system specs.
Acer Aspire 7730
http://www.laptop-software.com/acer-...-guide-manual/

Linux Mint Maya

Gnome Alsa mixer
Version: 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-3
that program mentions the following as my sound card:
Nvidia MCP77/78 HDMI

the headphones and the jack worked with win 7

Stab a pen into the speakers and destroy them? Only kidding.

Is this a hardware issue or do you not have this problem using Windows or whatever other operating system there was before you installed linux?

Either way this might help you.

Hah! I would stab them to death if I could!

Nope, not a hardware issue.

sorry to say, those settings mentioned in the link don't seem to isolate the headphones from the speakers :/


this seems to be more info on the sound system:
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:46 memory:f0500000-f0503fff

EDIT:
a@Ishamael ~ $ inxi -Ax
Audio: Card: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
a@Ishamael ~ $ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC888
Codec: LSI ID 1040
Codec: Nvidia MCP77/78 HDMI

followed instructions in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043568
Managed to kill all sound to speakers yet keep headphones.

After reboot though, the speakers were back on :/

usefull links:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.2.19/D...figuration.txt

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.2.19/D...odels.txt#L108

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043568

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopi...hones+speakers

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopi...phones#p629040

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopi...=86507#p500626