Routing Audio?

[Sidoh]

I recently installed Slackware 10.2 on my laptop.  I installed the newest version of ALSA, specifying intel8x0 as my card.  It works fine, but I'm wanting to mute the speakers when it detects that headphones are plugged into the headphone jack on the side.  I found a few things on enabling 5.1 sound (and I'm guessing what I want to do is fairly similar), which involved editing ~/.asoundrc, but I didn't find anything showing how to do that specifically.  The only outputs in alsamixer are Master (which effects both the speakers and the headphones) and PCM, which obviously doesn't do anything.

Anyone have experience with this?

[Newby]

My speakers automatically stop producing sound when a headset is plugged in.

And they're 5 years old.

[Sidoh]

My speakers automatically stop producing sound when a headset is plugged in.

And they're 5 years old.

That's because your speakers have nothing to do with your sound card.  The sound card on laptops supply the port for headphones, not the speakers.

[nslay]

My speakers automatically stop producing sound when a headset is plugged in.

And they're 5 years old.

That's because your speakers have nothing to do with your sound card.  The sound card on laptops supply the port for headphones, not the speakers.

My laptop speakers stop producing sound when headphones are plugged in too ... not sure whats wrong.  Have you tried a different set of headphones?  Is the port broken?

[Sidoh]

My laptop speakers stop producing sound when headphones are plugged in too ... not sure whats wrong.  Have you tried a different set of headphones?  Is the port broken?

It's not the headphones.  The headphones work fine.  It's not the port.  It works properly in windows.  There's supposedly a "headphone jack sense" that shows up in alsamixer, but it doesn't.