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Problem with Headphones on Ubuntu 13.04

Asked by Laurence Nagel

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04, and now I find that when I plug headphones in the headphones play fine but the speakers don't mute. When I open Sound in System Settings, I can see the system detecting whether the headphones are plugged in or not, but when the headphones are plugged in sound comes out the speakers AND the headphones. I'm pretty sure this isn't how it worked in Ubuntu 12.10.

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Best N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

Open alsamixer in terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) . Write

    alsamixer

and see if automute is enabled. It must be.

Another thing you can do is to upgrade the pulseaudio and other sound libs..

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    rm -rf ~/.pulse ; rm .pulse-cookie

Then restart your PC and re-test.

Regards
 NikTh

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Laurence Nagel (lwn) said : 		#2

Thanks NikTh, that solved my question.

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Laurence Nagel (lwn) said : 		#3

Thank you, NikTh!!! It turns out that one of my Ubuntu machines did not have Automute enabled, while the other two machines did. I believe now that this has nothing to do with the transition from 12.10 to 13.04 (Quantal to Raring). I didn't even know alsamixer existed until I asked this question.

Helpful suggestion: It would make sense, IMHO, to make alsamixer or some equivalent available through System Settings. That way, I might have stumbled onto it.

Thanks again!!!

Larry