<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Petter Adsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petter@synth.no" target="_blank">petter@synth.no</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:59:04 -0700<br>
"Kevin O'Gorman" <<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com">kogorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I use sound on Linux so seldom I can't really say when it stopped working,<br>
> but it was within the last 2 months. I really don't fool with it, so I<br>
> don't think I blundered it away.<br>
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> I'm pretty clueless about sound software, so at this point I'm stuck.<br>
> HELP!!<br>
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</span>The first test to do is always to open alsamixer (and pavucontrol, if<br>
you have pulseaudio) and check that sound isn't muted and the right<br>
outputs are selected. That is by far the most common problem.<br>
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Petter</font></span><br></blockquote></div><br><div><div><div>I need help finding the right control to use.<br><br>On my main machine, sound is not muted.<br><br></div>In
both alsamixer and pavucontrol there are just 2 outputs listed:
built-in sound which is what I want, and HDMI which I don't want because
while my monitors have HDMI, they don't have speakers. When I play
sound, only the HDMI one shows activity in pavucontrol. I don't see a
control to turn that off and turn on builtin sound; both look like
they're enabled but only HDMI shows activity.<br><br></div><div>The good
thing about this is I realized in checking this that the monitors have
headphone outlets. They work, and I can hear the sound now. But I
still want to be able to use the buitin mobo sound.<br></div><div><br></div>I
can't run without HDMI because my mobo has only HDMI outputs (and DP
and mDP which amount to the same thing). So the software will always
see HDMI, and perhaps choose it by default. I want a way to change the
default or override it sometimes.<br><br></div>My laptop is not running
Linux right now, but I'm hoping if I solve this on the main desktop,
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