Headphone/Speaker automatic switching

[barneyjoseph]

Hi,

I am an absolute newbie to Ubuntu. Is there a way that in Ubuntu Maverick that I could just plug in my headphones in and the speakers automatically get cut off and the headphones come on? Also when the headphones are unplugged that the speakers would come back on?

I have followed many tutorials and troubleshooting steps that instruct me to reinstall alsa and remove pulse. The only thing I can do to enjoy like a normal human is to go into "pavucontrol" and set the output to "Analog headphones" for the speakers to cut off and the headphones to play the music. Once I'm done I have to set the output back to "Analog Output" in "pavucontrol". Nothing seems to be muted in the alsamixer.

Please help me.

Thanks,
Barney.

[flurospar]

Don't know whether this will work, but have you tried running dpkg-reconfigure on the packages of pulseaudio and alsamixer (you need sudo)?

[rgreener25]

you should try running these commands at terminal

sudo dpkg-reconfigure pulseaudio

then when done

sudo dpkg-reconfigure alsamixer

[rgreener25]

it worked?

[barneyjoseph]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in replying. It didn't work. It says that alsamixer is not installed. But I have it installed. It somehow doesn't recognise it.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure pulseaudio
[sudo] password for barney: 
 * PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions
 * PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions

sudo dpkg-reconfigure alsamixer
Package `alsamixer' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: alsamixer is not installed

I still have to go to pavucontrol to use the headphones.

Thanks for replying so soon guys

[EDIT]
If you are interested, this is the troubleshooting that I followed: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/So...otingProcedure
I followed it till step7!