IFL90 - Headphone jack not working

I'll elaborate:

In Vista, it is treating the headphone jack as a separate audio output. If you plug in a headphone, the speakers won't shut off and audio won't start playing over the headphones as you would normally expect.

Instead, if you go to Control Panel and Sounds, you can see that it detects the headphones and if you press "Test", the test tones comes through the headphones only (not the laptop speakers). The "Speakers" have their own test button, which will play the test tones through the laptop speakers only (not headphones).

Is there any way to make the headphone jack operate as we would expect? You know... plug in a set of headphones, and the laptop speakers shuts off, but audio comes through the headphones instead.

the way Vista is treating the HD Audio device, the speakers and headpones are different output sources - in effect, you have a 4 speaker surround sound setup.

I haven't checked out winXP yet, so i dont know if this is also a problem there....

 

*bump*

Anyone else have this problem?

 

open up the control panel, then the realtek hd audio manager.
once that is open the device advanced settings (upper right hand settings).
Then you can select "tie up same type of input jacks"
that should fix your issues.

 

Try the HD Audio driver listed on the Realtek website.