On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:26 AM, SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com wrote:
This one might be more of a GNOME3 question. I'm running the RHEL7 beta on a laptop where I used to run windows xp. It's a Dell Latitude w/docking station and the dock has a coax/digital sound output. On windows, it would automatically switch to the analog headphone jack if I plugged headphones in. With linux there is a widget in the top bar on GNOME that has the volume control and a 'sound settings' option that I can open and pick digital or headphone output but it has to be done manually. Is there any way to get the windows behavior of using headphone output whenever they are plugged in?
While I can't speak for RHEL7, the expected behavior is seen when using GNOME3 under Fedora.
When I plug in my headphones to the 3.5mm jack, a small headphone icon shows up to the right of the speaker icon.
Running the RC now - I get the headphone icon if I am already switched to analog and the expanded sound settings window shows 'speakers' before I plug in. The larger picture switches to headphones too. And if I am switched to headphones and remove the headphone jack it auto-switches to digital output (spdif). The part that still seems missing is that if it is on spdif and I plug the headphones in, nothing happens. It is sort of an odd setup where the spdif jack is in a docking station, but windows did the auto-switch both directions.