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Using headphones in the Athena clusters

We appreciate your cooperation in not disturbing others working in Athena clusters, as stipulated by the Athena Rules of Use:

"... if you use a workstation that has sound capabilities, you are expected to use earphones rather than have the workstation audible to other users in the cluster."

On a Sun workstation:

1. Plug in the headphones
   • Ultra5 diagram
   • Ultra10 diagram
   • Sun Blade 100 diagram

2. Start the audio control panel with the command 'audiocontrol &' and switch output to 'Headphone' instead of 'Speaker'. Future sounds should now be played through the headphones. The audio control panel also controls the volume.

On an SGI workstation:

1. Plug in the headphones
   • O2 diagram

2. Note that the SGI's auto-switch to headphones when they are plugged in. All other audio controls do the right thing. I.e. the front-panel volume buttons affect headphones or speaker, depending on context.

On a Linux workstation:

General note

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