On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 05:45 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
Unfortunately, some boards only detect the presence of jacks
connected
to the back of the computer. Plugging, say a headphone, to the front
does not change anything.
In some computers, there's no "detecting" at all. It's a mechanical
switch in the headphone socket, and the front and rear panel sockets are
often different (e.g. a simple one on the front).
Detecting a connection made to *any* socket, without requiring special
sockets, would require electronics designed for that (detecting a DC
change, impedance loading change, etc.).
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