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nmmm

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Registered: 2019-03-18

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Dell XPS 15 9520, sound problem with headphones [SOLVED]

I am using XFCE.

Sound of my XPS 15 was installed and works automatically.

Only issue i can notice is following:

Suppose headphones are plug in and I reboot / boot the laptop.
While headphones are plug in, sound comes from the speakers.
If I unplug the headphones and plug again, sound begin to work via headphones.

Last edited by nmmm (2023-05-04 13:43:40)

V1del

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Re: Dell XPS 15 9520, sound problem with headphones [SOLVED]

Parallel Windows installation? Make sure fast boot is disabled: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_b … ibernation

If that isn't it, does the situation remedy itself if you run

sudo alsactl init

and reboot? If that didn't help either you have some borked dell firmware leaving the device in an undefined state/not properly resetting flags, might want to check for a UEFI/BIOS update.

Last edited by V1del (2023-05-04 12:38:45)

nmmm

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Registered: 2019-03-18

Posts: 15

Re: Dell XPS 15 9520, sound problem with headphones [SOLVED]

sorry for previous reply.

no, does not fix the issue.

Last edited by nmmm (2023-05-04 13:01:21)

nmmm

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Registered: 2019-03-18

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Re: Dell XPS 15 9520, sound problem with headphones [SOLVED]

I noticed if I log out from XFCE, sound problem still exists.

So I start

alsactl init

after login.

Because it still not worked as expected (may be require full path?), I did a file called /bin/alsainit.sh and start it instead:

#!/bin/sh

(
  echo init
  alsactl init
  echo done
) >& /dev/null

#/tmp/ainit.log

Now works as expected.