Problems with software speech

[Farhan]

Hello, i'm not sure about your second question about the headphone issues, but most laptop soundcards now a days are cingle channel only, they don't do multichannel, sinse Windows xp has some weird kernel implementation to do that all for you, I think the only true multichannel soundcards you can get for laptops are the soundblaster external pcmcia cards.

On 3/10/2007 at 23:05 Zachary Kline said
Hi,
    I admit there are probably better forums to adk this question.  However, I've tried looking for answers and come up with a blank.
I use one of those Intel Centrino mobile laptops, an HP DV2050 to be exact.  This comes with an 'High Definition Intel' sound card, which Alsa supports...Up to a point.
For whatever reason, I can't mix sounds with the provided drivers.  At all.  I can't play music, or listen to streaming radio, or anything along those lines.
But the far stranger problem is what happens when I boot my machine into Linux: it has a duel boot setup.  I use headphones for software speech.  The problem is that when I plug them in, they work, but the sound also comes out of internal laptop speakers.  
Funny thing is, when I boot into Windows first, and without shutting down the machine fully boot into Linux, I get a similar problem: only this time, speech comes out of headphones only, and no speakers.  So...
I guess I was wondering if anyone, anyone at all, has had this problem, and what they've done about it?
Thanks,
Zack.
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