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#1 2018-02-03 09:19:01

Inglebard
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Registered: 2016-05-10
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Dell ALC3246 no speaker when headphone plugged

Hi,

I recently aquire a Inspiron 15 3567, all work perfectly except a little detail about audio.
On my desktop (HP Pavillon), I always have headphone plugged and I used to switch between peripheric list in gnome sound setting to use the speaker.

If I try the same thing, on the Inspiron 15 3567, the sound is mute until I unplugged headphones.
I search on the forum and somebody link this : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … 4.9.5#n227. If i understand well, it talk about the reverse problem where heaphones and speaker works both in same time so the speaker are not muted.

So, I would like to know if it's a normal behavior due to hardware or a config file to modify ?

Note :
Here is alsa info : http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b79d0 … 03a70cfc7b

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#2 2018-02-03 14:58:15

c00ter
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From: Alaskan in Washington State
Registered: 2014-08-28
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Re: Dell ALC3246 no speaker when headphone plugged

As far as I know that is the default for most computers, laptop or desktop. I would surmise from that, that people prefer to listen via their headphones, when they plugged-in, rather than their onboard speakers and headphones. And yes, my Dell Inspiron 15 7537 is the same.


UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn

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#3 2018-02-03 19:24:37

Inglebard
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Re: Dell ALC3246 no speaker when headphone plugged

Hi C00ter,
Thanks for your feedback.
So, the default behavior is like phone.

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#4 2018-02-04 05:46:40

c00ter
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From: Alaskan in Washington State
Registered: 2014-08-28
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Re: Dell ALC3246 no speaker when headphone plugged

Inglebard wrote:

Hi C00ter,
Thanks for your feedback.
So, the default behavior is like phone.

You can certainly switch between outputs in Arch + GNOME as you wish. (The defaults are just the defaults.) If you look closely at the ArchWiki, particularly here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … chitecture and here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio as well as the forum, you'll probably find the solution you are looking for.

Arch users have also posted scripts in various places, and there are also GUI-fried tools, such as paprefs and pavucontrol that may aid in your quest.

regards

Last edited by c00ter (2018-02-04 05:47:48)


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