On Saturday, July 30, 2011 03:29 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On 7/29/2011 1:22 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> >>>> And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front >>>> "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes >>>> both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine. >>> >>> That's usually a hardware thing where plugging something into the >>> headphone jack breaks the connections to the speakers. >> >> I know. That's why I mentioned what I'd done, and that I was confused, >> because that's the result I expected, and I'm not getting it. > > I *think* I've got it: my manager suggested pavucontrol, but the only > place I found that was a repo he'd rather I didn't use. Then I tried > playing, again, with kmix from the panel, and this time I went to > configure it, and tried adding the control for IEC958I; I mute that, and > it seems to be quiet, and the speakers are working. > > mark "system-config-soundcard is too complicated, I guess..." > What happened to the screaming and pulseaudio bashing? This is so serene...