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felixnigh7

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Registered: 2013-07-15

Posts: 12

No sound through headphones/microphone ALC892

I've been trying for days to fix this issue, and am lost.  I've got a new desktop and cannot get sound to come out my headphones, or take input from my microphone.  I believe my sound card driver is installed correctly, and that it is a pulseaudio problem.  I've gone through the troubleshooter on Arch's alsa, and pulseaudio wiki pages.  I do get sound through my monitor speakers when I use HDMI, but would prefer headphones.  I have tried Debian, Linux Mint, Manjaro, and crunchbang and none of them have had working audio for me. 

where I see a problem is in pavucontrol, all my profiles, and input/output devices say (unplugged).  So in output devices, and next to Headphones it says (unplugged) when it is plugged in, same with my mic.  i see the visualizer playing to the music under headphones though.

everything is unmuted in alsamixer.

I've tried both the front panel mic/headphone port, and the back panel.

thanks in advance.

EDIT: i did get sound to play through my roommates USB headset, they have there own sound card. So sound does work, but I cannot always use these and still want to get sound through my headphones/mic.

"aplay -l":

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

amixer

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 51760 [79%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 51760 [79%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 9620 [15%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 9620 [15%] [on]

Last edited by felixnigh7 (2014-03-11 00:26:17)

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: No sound through headphones/microphone ALC892

Perhaps you have previous configuration files on your system (~/.asoundrc or similar)? You might want to look at you mapping of signal paths/jacks with hdajackretask found in alsa-tools (Frontpanel might be inactive on your particular hardware setup). Double check if correct module model is loaded for your card (line 36).

If you kill pulseaudio, does aplay produce sound?

To unload jack detection module this should work:

pacmd unload-module module-switch-on-port-available

Some people have issues with pulseaudio since upgrade to 5.0, so checkout changelog for configuration changes, here in forum there are several topics on this matter.