Sound Settings: says speakers unavailable but headphones plugged in

[Valtam]

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[m654321]

It's a long shot but if you haven't already it might be worth checking whether the BIOS allows control of any audio functions.

I looked in BIOS settings but couldn't find any mention of audio functions ... maybe I'm looking in the wrong place - I'm not familiar with this.

[minesheep]

Have you tried with live boot media and the correct bios settings? Otherwise I think that it is hardware problem. I use audacity and you could try to make speakers available by manually selecting output device from the list. You can download audacity from lite software even on live boot media. And if you got it working then the problem is likely to be bad connection on the headphone side of the motherboard. If it is hardware problem with the hedphone jack but the speakers works with audacity with manual settings it can be fixed by either software = reconfiguring something or hardware fix.

[trinidad]

I'm going to assume this is an HDA Intel sound card. Find the package: alsa-tools-gui  in synaptic and install it if it's not installed. Use hdajackretask to retask the headphone jack on your card.

TC

[m654321]

Have you tried with live boot media and the correct bios settings?

Next on my list

Otherwise I think that it is hardware problem. I use audacity and you could try to make speakers available by manually selecting output device from the list.

Using Audacity, the Device Toolbar does not show a speakers/headphones choice. Next to the speaker 'icon' of this toolbar it just shows the choice as 'default' or 'pulse'

[m654321]

I'm going to assume this is an HDA Intel sound card.
TC

I don't see the word INTEL in the following terminal output, so is it correct to assume this isn't an Intel sound card ?

Code:

marie@EasyNote-MX37:~$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SIS966 [HDA SIS966], device 0: ALC660-VD Analog [ALC660-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Valtam]

Code:

aplay -l

[m654321]

Code:

aplay -l

marie@EasyNote-MX37:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SIS966 [HDA SIS966], device 0: ALC660-VD Analog [ALC660-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Valtam]

See first post - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=24500

[Valtam]

Actually, that prob won't work, no digital out. Reverse that. Can you take a photo of the back where you plug the stereo jack cable into.