Installing arch linux on an Acer Aspire One?

[Kerry Hoath]

It depends on the config of the card, often headphones do mute the 
speakers, but this is not allways true.


Perhaps a little script to up the speakers might help and not break the 
existing config, not sure.
Regards, Kerry.

On 11/09/2010 6:53 PM, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> Kerry Hoath<kerry at gotss.net>  writes:
>
>    
>> I have found on some machines with Grml and this possibly holds  true
>> for arch as well that the speakers are set to 0 but headphones are
>> audible and usable.
>>      
> Yes, I use Grml's soundcard init script, adapted for Arch's init system.
> Should I unmute the speaker device, since headphones work?
> I'm really unsure, and input from others is most appreciated.
> Personally, I always use headphones.
>
>    
>> The Intel High definition audio codecs treat the headphones and
>> speakers as 2 different mixer devices sometimes more.
>>      
> Very interesting.  So the internal speaker won't go silent when
> headphones or external speakers are plugged in to the machine?
>
> -- Chris
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