Headphones not working

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 10:14 -0500, Richard Allen wrote: 
> I dont know what I did but suddenly my sound is broken.
> 
> I'm running Fedora 14 (x86-64) on a Dell Latitude E6410.  The problem is 
> as soon as I plug in my headphones I loose the sound.  If I unplug the 
> headphones I get sound out of the built in speakers of the laptop.  
> After I lost sound I started experimenting with the settings in sound 
> preferences and I'm pretty sure I have tested all possible combinations 
> without success.

Stupid question: are you sure the headphones actually work, e.g. when
plugged into an MP3 player or HiFi? I've often wasted time futzing
around with sound settings when the only problem was that my external
speakers had turned off because of a power outage.

poc