Headphone vs Line Out help

[eliburak]

I just got a Mac Pro and my old Altec speakers work fine from the headphone jack. When I plug them into my line out jack however, all sounds (except for the mistake chirp) come out of my internal speakers.

Any ideas? All help is appreciated.

 

[cgc]

I just got a Mac Pro and my old Altec speakers work fine from the headphone jack. When I plug them into my line out jack however, all sounds (except for the mistake chirp) come out of my internal speakers.

Any ideas? All help is appreciated.

This is a bug in OS X. You need to go to the Sound Preference Pane and select the output you want to enable (line-out). I have a USB headset and when I unplug it all sounds default to my MacPro's internal speaker instead of my line-out (external speakers). Annoying to say the least. I use a program like http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26839 but don't remember the exact name (not at home computer).

This is similar to the problem of having audio out of both the internal speaker and the line-out simultaneously while booted into Windows XP SP2 via BootCamp and something I wish Apple would fix.

Edit: Here's mention of the Windows XP issue http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-66803.html