Audio Devices

Hi, I recently purchased a HP Pavilion dv6974 Laptop. It works fine and all, just one thing I want to figure out.

The laptop has built-in speakers, a built-in mic, 2 headphone jacks and 1 microphone jack.

What I wish to do is to set up my audio devices so that there's 3 outputs, one from the built-in speakers, and one from each of the headphone jacks. The reason for this is primarily to use Ventrilo better.

I've tried looking through the Audio Device Manager and the Realtek Audio Manager but couldn't find anything that would help much, except in the Realtek Audio Manager there was this feature that sounded like it was what I was looking for, but all it did was mess up my microphone.

To add more to this confusion, there is actually another audio device in the Audio Device Manager, but it's the Digital Audio Receiver, and it doesn't do anything.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Hello

I think there is a contact switch in the headphone jack, which disables the output to the built in speakers when there is an input to the jack.

I am not sure if there is a way around this unless you can somehow disable the switch sense by software.

MadEngineer

 

That is correct, there is no way to get sound from the speakers and through the headphone jacks at the same time (if that is what you are trying to do) unless you modify the physical design of the headphone jacks (internally). You cannot do this with drivers or software.

 

I use Vent and TS just fine with the factory install of the device drivers.

 

Actually, I tried an older driver that actually gave me 2 audio devices. 1 from the speakers, and one from the headphones.

But using that driver caused the mic to lose its functionality, so I had to revert to the default driver. So I know it can be configured using the current hardware wiring. I'm gonna try out some more drivers, and hopefully there will be one that solves my problems.