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Flylowguy

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Registered: 2014-12-21

Posts: 8

No speakers on dell inspiron 7000 [SOLVED]

Hello all!
I just intalled arch today, and nearly everything seems to be working well. I'm using gnome. The problem I am having is that I cannot get the speakers on my laptop to work. I've read through the wiki and searched the internet but I just can't find anything useful. I don't know what kind of information would help the most, I just know that I've tried unmuting all of the channels I could find. If I plug in a pair of headphones, those work, it's just the internal laptop speakers that won't. Thanks for your help!

Last edited by Flylowguy (2014-12-22 03:46:15)

torors

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Registered: 2012-09-28

Posts: 106

Re: No speakers on dell inspiron 7000 [SOLVED]

Have you tried alsamixer?
I think you will find controls for "Master", "Headphone" and "Speaker". If you have more than one soundcard, see that you choose the right card in alsamixer (F6).

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: No speakers on dell inspiron 7000 [SOLVED]

Are you using Pulseaudio?  Is there any chance that the audio is going somewhere else, like to an HDMI output?

You may wan to look at the outputs of:
aplay -l
aplay -L
pactl --info

for clues

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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: No speakers on dell inspiron 7000 [SOLVED]

Better to see the wiki and related links.

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Flylowguy

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Registered: 2014-12-21

Posts: 8

Re: No speakers on dell inspiron 7000 [SOLVED]

I really have no idea what changed. I came back to try and fix this again today and suddenly everything is working. All I did was run the commands posted by ewaller to try and figure out where my audio was going. Well, thanks for the help anyway fellas. I will mark solved as soon as I am sure it will persist after a reboot.