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Hi!
I've had archlinux on my "big" computer for some time now and decided to install it on my laptop, an acer m3. Everything is working fine and as i wish, except for the sound not playing in my headphones when they are connected. It seems that when i plug the headphones in the soundcard is blocked or something along those lines, i've just tried playing around with the settings in alsamixer which resulted in nothing. Is there something obvious i'm overlooking? I'm not using a .asoundrc file, should i?
Output of some commands i suppose might be useful:
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 23704 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 59152 1
snd_hda_intel 25700 1
snd_hda_codec 97432 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6300 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 74926 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 7217 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 18966 1 snd_pcm
snd 60021 9 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC269VB
Also, here's my /var/lib/alsa/asound.state which might perhaps be interesting?: http://pastebin.com/ENuvatag
aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
works fine when i turn automute off in alsamixer but then only the speakers play the sound, if i turn automute on in alsamixer then it still says the sound is playing but everything is quiet. Is it possible that ALSA somehow mutes/blocks my headphones?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Your headphone output and speaker output are part of the same sound card, so if ALSA was blocking the headphone output, it would do the same to the speakers. It could be a hardware issue. Have you verified that the headphone output works using a liveCD? Also, have you tried a second pair of headphones?
Machine: Lenovo ThinkCenter M92 (M3209) - Inte i7-3770 CPU
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Have you looked at the Alsa topic in the wiki? especially the Troubleshooting section on No Headphone Sound with Onboard Intel Sound Card ?
Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-09-24 22:14:31)
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Your headphone output and speaker output are part of the same sound card, so if ALSA was blocking the headphone output, it would do the same to the speakers. It could be a hardware issue. Have you verified that the headphone output works using a liveCD? Also, have you tried a second pair of headphones?
I'm multibooting with Windows and there it seems to be working fine. I sadly don't have a second pair, but i've verified that these work both with my other computer and on windows on the laptop, should i try to get a hold of some others anyway?
Have you looked at the Alsa topic in the wiki? especially the Troubleshooting section on No Headphone Sound with Onboard Intel Sound Card ?
How do i know if this applies to me? And how would i check if i have a Intel onboard sound card?
Thanks for the quick replies!
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It would seem that i'm a bit stupid or something along those lines, after fiddling some more i realise that it was some kind of intermittent contact. So i'll have to stick with trying to keep the computer at an angle for now.
How do i edit this thread to mark it as solved?
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How do i edit this thread to mark it as solved?
Just edit the title of your first post. I'm happy you got it solved -- don't worry, we've all done things like this. At least you admitted it
By the way (for future reference), you asked
How do i know if this applies to me? And how would i check if i have a Intel onboard sound card?
Take a look at the output in your first post. See that "HDA Intel PCH"? See in the "lsmod" output where it says it's using the snd_hda_intel module? You can also check the output of
lspci | grep -i audio
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lfxgroove wrote:How do i edit this thread to mark it as solved?
Just edit the title of your first post. I'm happy you got it solved -- don't worry, we've all done things like this. At least you admitted it
By the way (for future reference), you asked
lfxgroove wrote:How do i know if this applies to me? And how would i check if i have a Intel onboard sound card?
Take a look at the output in your first post. See that "HDA Intel PCH"? See in the "lsmod" output where it says it's using the snd_hda_intel module? You can also check the output of
lspci | grep -1 audio
Ahh, thanks a heap!
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