Headphones work-no internal speaker sound?

[TBABill]

My sound card works well because I have audio from the headphone jack, and adjustment with volume control works fine, but no sound at all from internal speakers. Any suggestions?

I am running 10.04 and all updates are applied. I also have duplicated this problem on Mint 8, Karmic, PCLinuxOS and OpenSUSE so it is not distro-unique. As stated, sound card configuration is fine with headphones so it is an output/config issue from what I can tell.

Output of aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lspci output

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04)

cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xf9bf8000 irq 21


I continue to search the forums and do web searches hoping for specific guidance to get the speakers going. Any assistance is appreciated! I do realize the HDA Intel is a major pain for users so I am trying to find problems specific to my card or exact issue

[Elmer Fudd]

Had same problem.
Here is what worked for me.

Go to system menu
-Select "Sound"
In "Sound preferences" dialog
-select "Output" tab
Go to "Connector:" pop up list.
Change to "Analog Speaker"

This is also the only hiccup that I had in my upgrade.

[TBABill]

I had tried that previously. My only options are "analog output" and "analog headphones". Somehow I need speakers to be enabled in my configuration.

[Elmer Fudd]

The Intel 82801H seems to have had a lot of issues with linux over the last few years- Including:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...sg2240239.html

Is this a 32 or 64 bit install?
Have the speakers ever worked- previous distro, windows?
Any settings in the BIOS re Speakers.
Any key combos that toggle the speakers.

Until someone with real knowledge responds, these are the straws I would be grabbing at:
Reload all the audio components with the package manager (Pulseaudio and ALSA) then check the Sound Preferences "Output" tab for speaker choice. Play with the choices in the "Hardware" tab of the Sound Preferences dialog and recheck the available choices in the "Output" tab.

Please don't be frustrated with my obvious nu-b status. Just trying to throw some stuff out there- until someone who actually knows something contributes.

[TBABill]

This is a system that worked perfectly in Vista with speakers. It's never worked with the other distros of Linux I listed. However, it's a wireless keyboard with volume control that works well with headphones. Sound is perfectly clear and volume can be muted, increased and decreased normally. But when the headphones are not plugged in the internal speakers do not operate at all. It's a known issue with the Intel HDA configuration but I have not found a solution that fits my machine.

One example of the problem is any mixer installed does not have a speaker option listed, even with alsamixer via terminal. I have many others, such as headphones, mic, etc., but none for the speaker volume, as if the system does not even recognize them as available. I'm still digging through previous forum posts and looking for ideas. Thanks for the help offering. This driver seems to have caused a lot of problems for many users. Perhaps just getting a set of speakers to plug into the headphone jack would be the easiest and most immediate "fix", although that's just a workaround to a real problem.

[lidex]

Can you post the output of these terminal commands for me please:

uname -a
cat /proc/asound/version
head -n 1 /proc/asound/card*/codec#*

Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"
Please post text output using code tags. Also helpful is the make/model of your PC/Laptop.