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Ubspy

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Registered: 2019-10-22

Posts: 2

Headphones plugged into jack are not working [SOLVED]

Hello all, I apologize in advance if I'm missing something obvious, but I just can't seem to figure out this issue. I can't listen to audio, but only on linux and through the headphone jack. I have my laptop dual booting windows 10 and arch, when I boot into windows the speaker and headphone jack work fine. In arch, the speakers work just fine, but I can't listen through the headphone jack. I checked the audio levels using alsamixer, but it's definitely not muted. Additionally, when I do try and play something, I head sort of a click in my headphones, but when I stop trying to play audio it stops too. Furthermore, this is a recent issue, the headphones have worked before (at least I'm pretty sure). Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Edit: I have updated just to make sure all my packages are to their latest versions.

Last edited by Ubspy (2019-10-23 13:59:47)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,406

Re: Headphones plugged into jack are not working [SOLVED]

First things first, ensure (and I mean ensure, if you've done that previously, windows has a tendency to reenable that on updates) fast-boot is disabled in Windows, once that is guaranteed, boot into your Arch run

sudo alsactl init #Might be enough, if it isn't...
aplay -lL
amixer -c0
#If using pulse
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks
pacmd list-sink-inputs

Ubspy

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Registered: 2019-10-22

Posts: 2

Re: Headphones plugged into jack are not working [SOLVED]

Thank you, turning off fast boot was actually all I needed to do apparently, after rebooting into arch it worked no problem.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,406

Re: Headphones plugged into jack are not working [SOLVED]

Glad to hear, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post