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lambda23
Asked: 2014-05-16 05:38:30 +0800 CST

Change the main sound output

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Usually I use my headphone to listen a music (using the front port one). Sometimes, I plugged out the headphone jack, if I want to listen by speaker (using the back port). Now my question is, can I change the output without unplugging my headphone jack.

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1 Answers

  1. You can run alsamixer within a terminal :
    You will see various faders (master, pcm ...) or switchs .
    Navigate with left/right arrows to a switch called automute ,
    change its value from "enable" to "disable" with up or down arrow :
    Speaker should stay "on" with headphone connected.

    Instead using Alsamixer, you can install the graphical mixer gnome-alsamixer which as the same controls.

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