External or Surround Speakers connected to Laptop not working

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dineshtheboss Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 7	External or Surround Speakers connected to Laptop not working Im using Ubuntu 9.04 in my acer aspire 6930 laptop. Inbuilt speakers in my laptop is working, however the external or surround speaker system say 2.1 connected to my laptop is not working.. i just want to know possible solutions for this challenge..

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htismaqe Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 60	Have you gone through this yet? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SurroundSound You might also check here: [ubuntu] No sound through external speakers/headphones - Ubuntu Forums

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coopstah13 Linux Guru Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NH, USA Posts: 1,760	There should be a switch for external sound that you have to press. Click on the volume button and then click volume control. Then click preferences. Somewhere under switches there should be an external sound thing, checking this only ADDS it to the volume control. After you add it, then you need to go to the switches/options tab and select it.

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Originally Posted by coopstah13

There should be a switch for external sound that you have to press. Click on the volume button and then click volume control. Then click preferences. Somewhere under switches there should be an external sound thing, checking this only ADDS it to the volume control. After you add it, then you need to go to the switches/options tab and select it.

THAT is what I was thinking of. It's like "jack" something or other. Unfortunately, I don't have my Linux laptop up and running right now (Karmic tomorrow!) so I can't look at it directly.

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coopstah13 Linux Guru Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NH, USA Posts: 1,760	jack is something else entirely it is called external amplifier

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