[xubuntu-users] Dell XPS, Realtek audio switched to wrong output device

[Andreas Junius]

Hi,

I tried the pulse volume control as well. I can see two options on the 
output devices panel:
Speakers and
Headphones

Both are referring to one of the jacks on the right but there is no 
entry for the built-in speakers (these are probably the ones referred to 
as "rear speakers" under windows).

There is also a configuration tab on this panel, I tried all of them to 
no avail. Any other ideas what I could try?

Cheers,
	Andy

try: sudo lshw -short
to list your hardware




On 28/06/14 11:10, Rob Ward wrote:
> Hi Junius,
>
> I have used PulseAudio Volume Control in "Applications menu- Multimedia"
> to set the audio channels. I also had to specifically set the Chromium
> settings in this area to get catchup-tv and youtube etc to work across
> the HDMI. Could be worth a look.
>
> On another note, how did you get the computer spec's dump? I would like
> to be able to do that on my four machines for a quick comparison.
>
> Cheers, Rob
>
> On 28/06/14 11:04, Andreas Junius wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've a problem with audio output. I plugged in external speakers
>> recently and suspended the box without unplugging them first. Now the
>> internal speakers don't work any more, only the external ones. I did
>> start the box using windows and I was able to fix the problem by
>> selecting the so called "rear speakers" manually. I restarted the box
>> then with xubuntu, but unfortunately it didn't have the desired effect
>> there.
>>
>> Is there any way in xubuntu to select the output device manually?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
>> Some info about my system:
>>
>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>> Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>> Release: 14.04
>> Codename: trusty
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> H/W path Device Class Description
>> ======================================================
>> system Dell System XPS L702X (System SKUNumb
>> /0 bus 0XN71K
>> /0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
>> /0/2e processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.4
>> /0/2e/2f memory 64KiB L1 cache
>> /0/2e/30 memory 256KiB L2 cache
>> /0/2e/31 memory 6MiB L3 cache
>> /0/32 memory 6GiB System Memory
>> /0/32/0 memory 2GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz
>> /0/32/1 memory DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Ms
>> /0/32/2 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz
>> /0/32/3 memory DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Ms
>> /0/100 bridge 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
>> /0/100/1 bridge Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Proc
>> /0/100/1/0 display GF106M [GeForce GT 555M]
>> /0/100/2 display 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
>> /0/100/16 communication 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family M
>> /0/100/1a bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family U
>> /0/100/1b multimedia 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family H
>> /0/100/1c bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family P
>> /0/100/1c/0 multimedia SAA7231
>> /0/100/1c.1 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family P
>> /0/100/1c.1/0 wlan0 network Centrino Advanced-N 6230 [Rainbow Pea
>> /0/100/1c.3 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family P
>> /0/100/1c.3/0 bus uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller
>> /0/100/1c.4 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family P
>> /0/100/1c.5 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family P
>> /0/100/1c.5/0 eth0 network RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
>> /0/100/1d bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family U
>> /0/100/1f bridge HM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Contr
>> /0/100/1f.2 storage 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6
>> /0/100/1f.3 bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family S
>> /0/1 scsi0 storage
>> /0/1/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 750GB ST9750420AS
>> /0/1/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 101MiB Windows FAT volume
>> /0/1/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 19GiB Windows NTFS volume
>> /0/1/0.0.0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 362GiB Windows NTFS volume
>> /0/1/0.0.0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 316GiB Extended partition
>> /0/1/0.0.0/4/5 /dev/sda5 volume 10131MiB Linux swap / Solaris partiti
>> /0/1/0.0.0/4/6 /dev/sda6 volume 306GiB Linux filesystem partition
>> /0/2 scsi1 storage
>> /0/2/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 750GB ST9750420AS
>> /0/2/0.0.0/1 volume 698GiB SFS partition
>> /0/3 scsi5 storage
>> /0/3/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVD+-RW UJ8C1
>> /1 power DELL
>>
>>
>>
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Best regards,

		Andreas Junius

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