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Flo453

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Registered: 2024-06-16

Posts: 2

Headphones Work but not Line-Out using Pipewire and Wireplumber

Hello!

The problem is just as the Title suggests;

I have headphones and loudspeakers plugged into my Computer. one into the headphone jack and the other into the line-in (Edit: Actually, Line out).
I wanted to get Audio working as I ignored this until now. Through a bit of googling I found out that Pipewire and Wireplumber seem to be the choice to make, so I installed them.
Initially this did not work at all, in the meantime I also tried installing Audipulse which couldn't output any audio, but somehow installing and deinstalling that made Pipwire and Wireplumber kind of work, making them active.
I still did not hear any Audio though, so I switched to my headphones to check, and over headphones it did indeed work.

After watching more YouTube Videos, googling, reading the Wiki, and even asking ChatGPT, I have not found any solution to my problem, nor really even anyone having a similar issue.

Is there a fix to this, that I may just be missing, or will it just be like this?
If there is any additional information needed I'd be happy to send it, but I'm very new to this so I might not fully understand what's being asked.

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Flo453 (2024-06-16 10:45:57)

Whoracle

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Registered: 2010-11-02

Posts: 221

Re: Headphones Work but not Line-Out using Pipewire and Wireplumber

Unless I am misunderstanding, you want sound OUT of both headphones and speakers.

Line In is for INPUT, so you won't get sound OUT of it.

If you want to use both, you'll need to use some switch to plug both into the headphones jack.

Flo453

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Registered: 2024-06-16

Posts: 2

Re: Headphones Work but not Line-Out using Pipewire and Wireplumber

Oh, sorry about that, I mistyped. I meant the Line Output.

For some context, my Line output is directly on my motherboard, being plugged in on the hind side of the PC, while the headphone jack is on the front of the PC.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,223

Re: Headphones Work but not Line-Out using Pipewire and Wireplumber

What's your actual hardware/status quo?

lspci
aplay -lL
sudo dmesg | grep -E 'snd|sof'
amixer -c0 #Or whatever's the correct index according to aplay -l
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks

post that in code tags