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3igHankCh0w

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From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2012-08-22

Posts: 20

Sound Troubles

I have alsa, and pulseaudio installed, I have sound, but it is not working correctly. If I boot my laptop without the headphones plugged in, then I have sound from the speakers, but when I plug in my headphones, I still have sound from the speakers, but no sound from the headphones. If I boot my laptop with the headphones plugged in, then I have sound from the headphones, but when I unplug in my headphones, I have no sound from the speakers, but plug the headphones back in and I have sound from the headphones. I have arch installed on an Alienware M14X R2, Intel C210 audio, output of pgrep -af pulseaudio  is "583 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog". I am using fluxbox and starting X with /.xinitrc "startx" command.
This is a fresh install, as I had lots of crap that I wanted to get rid of, and sound was working fine before. I also have pavucontrol installed, and have checked alsamixer to make sure all outputs are not muted. Any thoughts or advice will be greatly appreciated.

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Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: Sound Troubles

Check out the pulseaudio module switch-on-connect.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar … #index21h3

The module in question is near the bottom of the page.
You would add this to your default.pa file and then restart pulseaudio.

HTH

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3igHankCh0w

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From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2012-08-22

Posts: 20

Re: Sound Troubles

I tried that with out success, thanks for the reply though. Let me restate sound is working, just no auto switching of speakers, and headphones, and I have to reboot to switch. I'm thinking something is not giving the command to change output.

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Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: Sound Troubles

There are similar threads addressing just this on this board.  You may want to try searching for pulseaudio headset and switch.  I believe that there was one or two within the last 3 months or maybe 4.

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3igHankCh0w

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From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2012-08-22

Posts: 20

Re: Sound Troubles

Thanks, I had tried numerous searches, I will use your suggestion. If I find a fix i will post it here, and mark post accordingly.

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,601

Re: Sound Troubles

I had a similar issue.  If I recall correctly, both Alsa and Pulseaudio were responding to the state change. 

Fire up alsamixer, select your real sound hardware (not PulseAudio) using F6.
I have a control named "Auto-mute mode"; disabling that did the magic.

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3igHankCh0w

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From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2012-08-22

Posts: 20

Re: Sound Troubles

I thank everyone who has replied, but I am still unable to switch from speakers to headphones without rebooting. As this was a fresh install, I decided to start over, write zeros to my hard drives, and install anew. I decided to not install Pulse Audio, but the problem still persists. As I said I did not have this problem before, sound would switch to the headphones when I plugged them in with no problem. I will continue to work on the problem, and with hope find a solution, until then I will be grateful I have sound. Please note I am trying all the suggestions, and I am getting an education in Linux Sound, so that's a plus! :}

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3igHankCh0w

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From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2012-08-22

Posts: 20

Re: Sound Troubles

More info, when I run:
cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec

The output is:

Codec: Creative CA0132
Codec: Intel PantherPoint HDMI
Codec: Nvidia GPU 42 HDMI/DP

I found this in my search, it's some slackware info, but describes what I am going through:
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardwa … -hda-intel

From what I have read about Creative, I may just be screwed, but most of the post I am finding is 2 or more years old.
I am just baffled by the fact that just last week the sound was working, and I decided to clean house and do a fresh install, and now it is not.

I would like to add that when I run lspci, there is no mention of a Creative sound device.

Last edited by 3igHankCh0w (2015-03-17 13:48:35)

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3igHankCh0w

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From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2012-08-22

Posts: 20

Re: Sound Troubles

Well I had hoped that a kernel update might fix this problem, but alas that is not the case. I must still reboot to change the sound output. I have done everything that has been suggested, and more searches, but at this time, I still must reboot to switch between speakers and headphones.

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Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: Sound Troubles

Can't you use pactl to change it without rebooting?

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