I solved the problem! Here's a howto: 1. Fire X-terminal 2. type Code: alsamixer -c0 3. use the left-right arrows to highlight "HP DAC" 4. set the HP DAC volume to 100 using the up arrow 5. highlight the first 'right DAC' entry (next to DAC-R1) 6. press M to turn it on -- the MM above it should turn to OO 7. repeat steps 5 - 6 for the first 'left DAC' 8. go to the last option 'speaker' and press the up arrow to switch it on. Now you should hear audio on both speakers and headphones (you should be able to turn headphones off by reducing their volume or turning the third left DAC and right DAC off, but I didn't try that) Now I hope someone has the time and skill to make this a status area applet...
alsamixer -c0