On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 16:07, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 11/10/2022 10:30, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Without headphones plugged in, there is a clear input level showing on the sound settings. With any headphones plugged in, however, none. So I can watch videos or whatever, but it's impossible to use video conferencing tools as no-one can hear me.
Ideas?
Mint 19.1. on a Dell Latitude laptop.
(or similar). Try and work out what mint is using first (e.g. Alsa or Pulse Audio).
Ha! Is this the dreaded Pulseaudio shenanigans? I had this months ago where plugging in USB headphones would confuse Pulseaudio into thinking there was no sound output at all (even thought I had Line Out wired up and working before plugging in the USB device). Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would terminate all sound devices.
A restart of the pulseaudio thing ("pulseaudio -k" on the command line) usually made it work.
Best wishes, Srdjan