headphones works for a moment and then stop

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:18 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If I boot into f12 or f13 and play something using rhythmbox I hear
> sound through my speakers on my laptop.
> 
> If I plug in the headphones with them already on a hear sound in the
> headphones for less than a second, and then I get nothing.
> 
> Unplug the headphones and sound works through the speakers. Replug the
> headphones and there's no sound at all each time after the first.
> 
> I've tried restarting pulseaudio.  I've look at aslamixed -c 0.
> 
> Has anyone had similar experiences?
> 
> I've searched for bugs on this and added comments to a couple, but in
> most cases they were f11 related with on f12.  I'm not seeing anything
> f13 at this stage.

If you run pavucontrol and go to Output Devices tab, is there a
'headphones' entry in the Port drop-down menu for the device in
question? Does that help? (In my experience it never does anything good,
but worth trying).
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