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cloverskull

#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-10-26

Posts: 377

No sound from speakers until I plug in and then unplug headphones

Hey guys, running sid, everything up-to-date as of Feb 1 2015. I'm kind of at a loss here...anything that uses sound is muted until I plug in headphones and then unplug them. It's as if pulse is outputting everything to the headphone jack and ignoring the speakers. Not really sure how to troubleshoot this. I haven't removed pulse or done anything funky with sound. The sound control applet has odd behavior of showing everything muted even if I try to change to unmuted. This hasn't always been this way - not really sure when or why this changed. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot?

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ivanovnegro

Ivan #000000

From: unstable madness

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5,432

Re: No sound from speakers until I plug in and then unplug headphones

It is Pulse. How about looking into pavucontrol and then change from headphones to speakers.

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machinebacon

#! unstable

From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,826

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Re: No sound from speakers until I plug in and then unplug headphones

That's called headphone jack detection.

$EDITOR /etc/pulse/default.pa

comment this line

load-module module-switch-on-port-available

restart pulse and pray.

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ivanovnegro

Ivan #000000

From: unstable madness

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5,432

Re: No sound from speakers until I plug in and then unplug headphones

Off topic: Hello Bacon.

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cloverskull

#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-10-26

Posts: 377

Re: No sound from speakers until I plug in and then unplug headphones

Interestingly enough this seems to have automagically fixed itself. I did an apt-get update and dist-upgrade today after not powering on my sid laptop for a couple weeks (been traveling) and after that...it just works. Thanks for the help though guys!

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twoion

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Registered: 2012-05-11

Posts: 1,648

Re: No sound from speakers until I plug in and then unplug headphones

Oh, the joys of pulseaudio. Please, add [SOLVED] to the OP's title.

Last edited by twoion (2015-02-04 18:39:27)

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