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Zaku140

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Registered: 2015-08-14

Posts: 31

[Resolved] Sound not working with headphones after recent update

I have a Thinkpad T450s laptop with an intel sound card and my headphones worked fine before I updated my system last night. My DE is KDE Plasma 5. To try to find the culprit I did:

$ cat /var/logs/pacman.logs

[2015-08-29 22:54] [ALPM] upgraded bluedevil (1:5.3.2-1 -> 1:5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:54] [ALPM] upgraded boost-libs (1.58.0-2 -> 1.58.0-3)
[2015-08-29 22:54] [ALPM] upgraded kdecoration (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:54] [ALPM] upgraded breeze-icons (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:54] [ALPM] upgraded ttf-oxygen (1:5.3.2-1 -> 1:5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Updating font cache... done.
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded breeze (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded drkonqi (5.3.2-3 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kde-cli-tools (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kde-gtk-config (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] installed signon-plugin-oauth2 (0.22-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] installed libaccounts-glib (1.18-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] installed libaccounts-qt5 (1.13-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] installed signon-ui (0.17+15.10.20150810-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] installed kaccounts-integration (15.08.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] installed purpose (1.0rc1-2)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kdeplasma-addons (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded khelpcenter (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kwayland (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded libksysguard (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded libkscreen (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded milou (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded plasma-workspace (5.3.2-3 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded khotkeys (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kinfocenter (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kmenuedit (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kscreen (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded ksshaskpass (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded ksysguard (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kwin (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded kwrited (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded libmwaw (0.3.5-1 -> 0.3.6-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded libwbclient (4.2.3-1 -> 4.2.3-2)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded libwps (0.4.0-1 -> 0.4.1-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded lmdb (0.9.15-1 -> 0.9.16-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded oxygen (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded oxygen-cursors (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded powerdevil (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded polkit-kde-agent (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded systemsettings (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded plasma-desktop (5.3.2-3 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded plasma-mediacenter (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded plasma-nm (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded plasma-workspace-wallpapers (5.3.2-1 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded smbclient (4.2.3-1 -> 4.2.3-2)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded snappy (1.1.1-1 -> 1.1.3-1)
[2015-08-29 22:55] [ALPM] upgraded xterm (319-1 -> 320-1)

I am not sure which upgrade could have effected my sound. I also ran amixer:

$ 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 79969 [122%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 79969 [122%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 76838 [117%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 76838 [117%] [on]
Everything seems to be on I'm not sure if Master is suppose to be 0 ? Not quite sure.  Okay and my modprobe configuration file has the following:

/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad

I'm tinkered around with this file a lot. I checked alsamixer the headphones are not muted. I checked the Arch Wiki and the solutions there did not fix my problem and I checked older forums just in case it was not a result of the update but none of the solutions there worked either. And everything was working fine before this update so I think it has something to do with one of the package upgrades. Is anyone else having this problem?

[Update] Okay I updated my computer and restarted today and it works now. Anyone else had this experience this?

Last edited by Zaku140 (2015-08-31 05:38:12)