[PLUG] Resolved: Line out audio problem
Dick Steffens
dick at dicksteffens.com
Thu May 2 18:09:44 UTC 2019
On 5/1/19 4:40 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Hardware is a box from ENU. Software is Ubuntu MATE with XFCE window
> manager.
>
> This afternoon the line out audio stopped working, mostly. I was able
> to hear it faintly. The headphone out on the front of the computer
> still works. That will keep me working until I get the line out
> problem resolved, but only if I just use headphones. Normally I use
> the headphones through external speakers, but there's an impedance
> mismatch when plugged into the headphone jack on the front, and it
> adds distortion. Plus, I often need to adjust the volume, which is
> easy to do with the external speaker. I tried the GNOME ALSA Mixer,
> and see that line is not muted.
>
> Is there anything else I should be looking at before I decide it's a
> hardware problem with the sound stuff on the motherboard?
>
> Thanks.
>
Turns out there's more than one way to mute the sound. Using the
PulseAudio Volume Control I discovered Line Out at "Silence". Once I
moved it up all was well again. I have no idea how it got moved to silence.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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