Recently, I bought a new notebook. My wife complained for a while about our good old Armada E500. I found a very interesting promotion for a Packard Bell notebook with a up-to-date configuration: Dual-core/2GB of RAM. Just enough to run the new Vista GUI (“Aero”). It’s time to use the latest Microsoft monster…
Vista installed, I quickly switched back to the old Windows scheme! The new one is too CPU consuming and, is there really emprovements when your core application is Putty???? ;-). On the other side, I liked the possibility to not use an administrator profile for the normal operations.
Today, I faced an strange issue: when I connected an audio headset into the front-3″5 jack, no sound!? In the audio properties panel, there was two audio output configured:
The insertion of a headset was detected by Vista, but no sound at all! In fact, I was forced to configure the headset entry as “default” output. In this case, sounds can be heared via the front-jack. There is another strange behaviour: I need to connect the headset before starting the application which will produce sound. If I disconnect the headset, the sound never fallbacks to the internal speakers. I need to restart the application (ex: Media Player)
If anybody has more details or can help me to configure the front-jack in a better way, tell me…