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djp

Member

Registered: 2012-02-11

Posts: 12

Pulseaudio update: built-in analog stereo no sound

Hello,

Since I've updated pulseaudio, sound no longer plays on my default line-out speakers. Normally I have two sound devices hooked up: line-out and a wireless headset. Using pavucontrol, I can still switch to the headset and sound works perfectly, but my speakers get nothing. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Knute

Member

From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: Pulseaudio update: built-in analog stereo no sound

Are you speakers muted?  Turned off?

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Knute

vorpalblade

Member

Registered: 2013-11-07

Posts: 13

Re: Pulseaudio update: built-in analog stereo no sound

It might be the kernel (I had a similar problem, except with headphones instead of speakers).

My headphones were different in that I could (barely) hear audio, but I was not able to hear anything through my external speakers.

Try running the following script:

#!/bin/sh
ARCH=$(uname -m)
GOODVERSION=3.18.6-1
CACHEDIR="/var/cache/pacman/pkg"
URLBASE="http://seblu.net/a/arm/packages"
EXT="pkg.tar.xz"
INSTALLCOMMAND=""
cd $CACHEDIR
for i in "linux-${GOODVERSION}" ; do
	if [ ! -f ${CACHEDIR}/${i}-${ARCH}.${EXT} ]; then
		FIRSTLETTER="$(echo ${i} | head -c 1)"
		sudo curl -O ${URLBASE}/${FIRSTLETTER}/${i%%-*}/${i}-${ARCH}.${EXT}
	fi
	INSTALLCOMMAND+=" ${CACHEDIR}/${i}-${ARCH}.${EXT}"
done
sudo pacman -U  ${INSTALLCOMMAND}

You will need to reboot.

Hope this helped.