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Speakers suddenly quit. Installed new speakers and still cannot get any sound. I've attached a system report. Please advise.
David

(07-24-2020, 03:51 AM)az-suomi link Wrote: [ -> ]Speakers suddenly quit. Installed new speakers and still cannot get any sound. I've attached a system report. Please advise.
David

Hello!

For some reasons, sometimes after install, the speakers are muted. Some Apps also mute the speakers. Why does this happen, it's above my skills to explain.

So, here is what to do:

Open a terminal window or use Synaptic Package Manager.
Copy/Paste the following, if you use the terminal:

Code:
sudo apt install pavucontrol -y

Now in the Linux Lite main menu, choose Multimedia and from here, choose PulseAudio Volume Control. Wink

Good luck! Smile

(07-24-2020, 03:51 AM)az-suomi link Wrote: [ -> ]Speakers suddenly quit. Installed new speakers and still cannot get any sound. I've attached a system report. Please advise.
David

To make sure the speakers are functioning you may try with

Code:
speaker-test

for that, open a terminal and type

Code:
speaker-test  -c 2

if everything's fine speakers will make some noise and you should get an output similar to this:

Code:
$speaker-test -c 2

speaker-test 1.2.2

Playback device is default

Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels

Using 16 octaves of pink noise

Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)

Buffer size range from 96 to 1048576

Period size range from 32 to 349526

Using max buffer size 1048576

Periods = 4

was set period_size = 262144

was set buffer_size = 1048576

 0 - Front Left

 1 - Front Right

Time per period = 11,019373

 0 - Front Left

 1 - Front Right

^CTime per period = 11,026943

If you get

Code:
command not found

error you might need to install

Code:
alsa-utils

install with

Code:
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

and run the speaker-test command again. You may also try with

Code:
alsamixer

and see if can fix the sound with it.

Quote:Open a terminal window or use Synaptic Package Manager.
Copy/Paste the following, if you use the terminal:

Code:
sudo apt install pavucontrol -y

I believe pavucontrol is already installed in LL, might be wrong though and I'm not in LL right now but I think it is. Otherwise yes, this is another option and probably an easier one since it has a GUI.

Hope this helps! Smile

Took your advice, but I still don't have any sound from speakers.

(07-25-2020, 09:42 PM)az-suomi link Wrote: [ -> ]Took your advice, but I still don't have any sound from speakers.

Which one? Installing pavucontrol or running speaker-test? Is this a laptop or a desktop? If a laptop, do you get audio from the internal speakers? If a desktop, can you try with another set of speakers? Just to rule out they're not malfuctioning.

This is a desktop computer with new Logitech speakers. Pavucontrol is already installed. Speaker-test was run with normal results but no sound from speakers. Ran other tests with no results. I will try another pair of speakers.

Check the speaker output in colume control.
When you have a HDMI monitor, sound is sometimes outputed to there.
You have to choose the correct output.

Hope this helps! Wink

az-suomi

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