I have looked this up online, and all the explanations I have found so far are extremely confusing (and don’t make any sense to me). My problem is that after upgrading my ubuntu version my headphones stopped working. My speakers work, but turn off when my headphones are put in (as they should). However no sound can be heard at that time.

I have heard some vague ambiguous explanations talking about:

• Alsa Mixer
• Volume control (the same thing?)

But so far no solution ?

Solution : Headphones Don’t Work After Installing Ubuntu 10.10

Hope this helps

Sorry about that hasty answer. I meant to say that you have to look for your soundcard and add the line corresponding to your hardware at the end of alsa-base.conf as follows:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Save and reboot. Voilà, your headphones should be working now! (Just keep in mind that you need to switch between “analog output” and “analog headphones” in the sound settings manager depending on which one you wanna use.

If it’s an integrated sound chip, you might be able to have your headphones back by adding “options snd-hda-intel model=*****” or “options snd-hda-intel model=***** position_fix=*” (without the quotes) at the end of alsabase.conf file, just as I explained in my previous post. All you need to do is to merely copy-paste it after all the text in that .conf file.

If your computer is a laptop, the line should be provided in that list. By the way. If your computer isn’t a laptop, then, you should try “auto” for the model and “0,” “1” or “2” for the position. Hope you got it working this time around.

source : ubuntuforums.org

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