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Dowefu

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Registered: 2014-03-25

Posts: 68

Laptop speakers stopped working after pulseaudio update

Laptop speakers stopped working after pulseaudio update. Sound presents only in the headphones output.

Speakers' port is displayed as not available in the pactl output and in graphical utilities for the sound control.

$ pactl list
<...>
Аудиоприёмник №1 # Audiosink # 1
        <...>
        Имя: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo  # Name
        Описание: Встроенное аудио Аналоговый стерео # Description
<...>
Порты: # Ports
                analog-output-speaker: Динамики (priority: 10000, not available) # Speakers
                analog-output-headphones: Аналоговые наушники (priority: 9000, available) #Headphones

How to restore sound in speakers?

brix

Member

Registered: 2014-05-26

Posts: 69

Re: Laptop speakers stopped working after pulseaudio update

This may not be the solution, but peculiar nonetheless: after the update everything remained as before on my notebook except  there was no sound from the speakers -- weird, since Gnome's Sound settings window was, as usual, showing "Speakers -Built-in Audio" selected, volume at 100%, and balance centered, with profile "Analog Stereo Output".

Then I adjusted the Gnome menubar volume slider from 100% to zero and back to 100% again and normal speaker sound returned.

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