On 11/10/2022 16:30, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
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
Pulse and Alsa seemed intertwined on this machine?
pulseaudio -k made it twitch a bit. There appeared to be a touch more sound detected, in other words. Not enough though.
Playing with alsamixer in terminal. Ditto.
It did work once (albeit sometimes Zoom played up, but it does that anyway) so I'm wondering what, between then and now, changed.
Bev