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sinholueiro

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Registered: 2015-08-01

Posts: 9

Brokend sound using headphones

Hi! Let's see if we can fix it. I can't use the headphones, the system recognizes it and I can change his volume, but I can't hear anything. Using the built-in speakers of my laptop, the sound works perfect. Any ideas?

vkovanovic

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Registered: 2015-03-10

Posts: 19

Re: Brokend sound using headphones

I have the same question, I can't get sound to work on my headphones, although pavucontrol shows it working (you can see the bars jumping as the music goes). As soon as I unplug headphones sound is back on the speakers totally normally.

sinholueiro

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Registered: 2015-08-01

Posts: 9

Re: Brokend sound using headphones

I also have to say that the headphones are connected to the PC with jack, not USB.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Brokend sound using headphones

You need to provide way more information than this, what's the output of

aplay -l
amixer -Dyourhardwarehere

There are some cards that can't autoswitch but expose a control to do so anything to that regard in e.g. alsamixer or similar?

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Brokend sound using headphones

the system recognizes it and I can change his volume

How do you know they are regognized?
How are you changing the volume?
Are you using Pulseaudio?

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sinholueiro

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Registered: 2015-08-01

Posts: 9

Re: Brokend sound using headphones

I know they are recognized because the speakers stops playing sound and in the panel it puts a headphone icon. I changed the volume in such multiple ways...
Now I have pulseaudio, yes.

This is my aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC270 Analog [ALC270 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

jdevelop

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Registered: 2014-04-18

Posts: 48

Re: Brokend sound using headphones

perhaps I face the same issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=205150