Re: [orca-list] Strange sound problem in linux

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

Are you sure you have to shutdown or power off? Could your volume just 
be muted or at a very low volume?

I have this issue on my Asus laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. The volume is 
turned down very low if I plug or unplug anything into the audio output 
jack. I get around it by using the multimedia keys on my laptop to raise 
the volume.

If I recall this is a bug somewhere in the kernel or device driver, and 
it affects multiple distributions. There was a bug opened to track this, 
but I don't know where that ended up any more.

On 03/08/2015 01:42 AM, Michael Weaver wrote:
> I thought this may be a specific Linux distro but this seems to happen at least when running either Ubuntu or 
> Sonar but there appears to be an issue with switching output devices when sound of any type is played which 
> disables both login sounds and Orca.
> This is at least happening on my laptop running Ubuntu Utopic and the latest version of Orca.
> What happens is that if I install Linux with say a headset like the kind you may use in a Walkman or the kind 
> with the same jack as an IPhone headset or use the built in speakers, you seem to have to do one or the other 
> when booting up a Linux system, not either or because if you use a headset when doing a fresh install or 
> install and have Orca speak through the external speakers, if you switch at all during bootup like you wish 
> to use a headset for privacy maybe yet your original installation has had Orca come through the built in 
> speakers, you may have a perfectly running Linux system only you have no sound so you have to either shutdown 
> via a terminal or just power off.
>
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