Getting sound to come out of external speakers

did a new install on a old pc. it has the standard ac97 audio on board and sound works fine in arch. but the sound comes out the pc speaker in the front and not from the external speakers hooked up to the audio out jack on the back. any ideas? the pc is an HP Compaq D530 tower

Did you checked with alsamixer to see if there isn't a muted channel?

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I had a similar problem a while back. The issue was with the speaker jack plug and the macbook phone socket. For some reason the jack plug was not a good a fit, as say the jack that comes with the iphone ear phones. A few tiwsts and turns of the speaker jack plug and it eventually became a snug(ish) fit. Have a look on you tune. There are a couple of videos on there that might help if this is not the issue.

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Hey jbarwins
Check to make sure that you are up to date on your computer. Another recommendation would be to try a different cable and also reset the NVRAM on your computer.
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[SOLVED] Sound will come out of the speakers, but not the headphones.

So, the headphones won't play any sound (they work with my phone, not on my laptop) when plugged in.
When the headphones are plugged into the jack, the speakers mute, so I know that the laptop is registering that they got plugged in, but still no sound comes out.
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: VT1708S Alt Analog [VT1708S Alt Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
And:
amixer -c 0 contents
numid=21,iface=CARD,name='Headphone Jack'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
: values=on
numid=18,iface=CARD,name='Internal Mic Phantom Jack'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
: values=on
numid=19,iface=CARD,name='Mic Jack'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
: values=off
numid=20,iface=CARD,name='Speaker Phantom Jack'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
: values=on
numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
: values=on
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=1,min=0,max=42,step=0
: values=33
| dBscale-min=-63.00dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Switch'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=2
: values=on,on
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=42,step=0
: values=42,42
| dBscale-min=-63.00dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---RW-,values=2,min=0,max=255,step=0
: values=255,255
| dBscale-min=-51.00dB,step=0.20dB,mute=0
numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Boost Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=3,step=0
: values=0,0
| dBscale-min=0.00dB,step=10.25dB,mute=0
numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=2
: values=on,on
numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
: values=18,18
| dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=2
: values=on,on
numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
: values=15,15
| dBscale-min=-16.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='Loopback Mixing'
; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2
; Item #0 'Disabled'
; Item #1 'Enabled'
: values=1
numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Auto-Mute Mode'
; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2
; Item #0 'Disabled'
; Item #1 'Enabled'
: values=1
numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='Dynamic Power-Control'
; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2
; Item #0 'Disabled'
; Item #1 'Enabled'
: values=0
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='Independent HP'
; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2
; Item #0 'Disabled'
; Item #1 'Enabled'
: values=1
numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='Internal Mic Boost Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=3,step=0
: values=2,2
| dBscale-min=0.00dB,step=10.25dB,mute=0
numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Internal Mic Playback Switch'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=2
: values=off,off
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='Internal Mic Playback Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
: values=23,23
| dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Playback Switch'
; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=2
: values=off,off
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Playback Volume'
; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=42,step=0
: values=0,0
| dBscale-min=-63.00dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=24,iface=PCM,name='Capture Channel Map'
; type=INTEGER,access=r----R--,values=2,min=0,max=36,step=0
: values=0,0
| | chmap-fixed=FL,FR
numid=23,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map'
; type=INTEGER,access=r----R--,values=2,min=0,max=36,step=0
: values=3,4
| | chmap-fixed=FL,FR
numid=25,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map',device=2
; type=INTEGER,access=r----R--,values=2,min=0,max=36,step=0
: values=0,0
| | chmap-fixed=FL,FR
Anything else I need to show?
Last edited by Ave6 (2013-08-29 07:28:09)

rufus wrote:well you could post your alsamixer but before you do screw around with it turn all volumes up and such unmute everything
usually its the easiest damn thing maybe an F key needs tweaking....good luck!
Like this?
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.0.27.2 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA Intel F1: Help │
│ Chip: VIA VT1708S F2: System information │
│ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │
│ Item: Mic Boost [dB gain: 10.25, 10.25] Esc: Exit │
│ │
│ │
│ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │
│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │
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│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ └──┘ ├──┤ └──┘ Disabled Enabled Enabled ├──┤ └──┘ Enabled │
│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │MM│ │
│ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │
│ 56 100<>100 100<>100 100<>100 37<>37 21<>21 87<>87 53<>53 │
│ Master Headphone Speaker PCM Mic <Mic Boost>Auto-Mute Dynamic P Independe Internal Internal Loopback │
│ │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Auto-Mute didn't really help...
Also, according to some post I saw online somewhere I added this to the default.pa in /etc/pulse/:
# Take Independent HP into use.
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