
Originally Posted by
Spd2Last
Hi Wallace,
You said that your computer detects the headphones being plugged, but does the output change to the front ports? I have an Asus Xonar Dx, and I have to manually select the sound to output through the front ports.
Hope this helps

Originally Posted by
johngalt
This might be of use as well - it is building on what Spd2Lst mentions.
I have a set of Logitech Laptop headphones (USB, with 1/8" mini jacks plugging into the USB dongle) that I use at night. The first time I plug them in all is well, but after a reboot, when I plug them in they are detected but the sound device does not make them the default since my STAV receiver, which I use for sound, is connected to the back of the machine at all times, and it is set as default. What I do is connect the headphone,s and make them the default. Then, when I disconnect the headphones, the STAV receiver takes over as default, and when I next connect the headphones it automatically becomes the default again.
The reason I suggest this is that, as Spd2Lst mentioned, unless the system (or I do it manually) changes the headphone as the default, I cannot get sound out of the headphones.
See i this helps at all.
Thanks Guys, you've lead me to the solution.
1. With Vista it is a manual process, you must manually set the output device.
2. Currently running apps will still output to the existing output device, only newly apps will go out through the newly selected output device.
So that's where I went wrong, I'd switch the output device to head phones with an mp3 running, when nothing changed assumed it didn't work.
Guess I shouldn't assume that what's in XP should be in Vista. You've saved a weekend if pointless testing.
Cheers,
James