Linux wont play sound after windows mute

[Overkill]

Ok.. here it is ... my machine is dual booting between Xp and a mandrake distro... however i have found that whenever i am working in windows and i mute my sound... and then reboot to Linux .. the sound will not play from speaker of the laptop but on from the "jack" ... and if i reboot to XP .. unmute the sound and restart... everything go back to normal....

Anyone have any idea .. why this is like this.. it kinda seem strange

[pogi_2nr]

what happens if you [un]mute it in linux?

[psilos]

It may be possible that in Windows the sound is muted from the BIOS level and hence that setting carries over into Linux.

[Overkill]

what happens if you [un]mute it in linux?

it just dont play any sound from the speaker .. only from the the headphone jack

I was assuming the same thing too psilos.. however...

i would assume.. that Linux OS would.. enable it.. on boot

[psilos]

Well that would depend on the driver in use in Linux. Its a posibility that the manufacturer did not necessarily write the driver for Linux and hence the driver was either reverse-engineered or written from specs of the Sound chip. That feature could have been left out.

Are you using ALSA or OSS?

[ferronrsmith]

what type of sound card do you have?

[Overkill]

its running ALSA...........