Confusing hardware issue

[Greg Rundlett]

On 11/8/05, Lawrence Tilly <mail.list.tilly at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have already been trying to search google and hardware reports on this but
> with no luck.  Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
>
>  I have a dual-boot laptop ( Dell Latitude D600 ) w/ W2K and SuSE 9.3.  For
> some reason though, the earphone output built into the device is not working
> under the Linux environment.  The earphones work fine under W2K and my
> previous dual-boot config ( Debian via Libranet ) had no problems with it
> either

I've run into this once or twice, and it was that the earphone output
was muted.  Kmix gui app will let you see what's muted/not and the
volume levels, or like Neil said, alsamixer from the command line will
do the same.