I was playing music with my headphones plugged in. The music was coming out of the headphones, but I also noticed that my speakers were playing the same music.
Why is this, and how can I fix it?
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Possibly related: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6993/internal-microphone-not-working – User Oct 25 '10 at 05:47
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This answer helped me to get rid of this problem. My card was an Intel card. – Anwar Sep 23 '12 at 03:23
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possible duplicate of Sound from both headphones and speakers – Eliah Kagan Oct 03 '12 at 00:22
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This question is not localised. and could have perfectly good answers, but as others have said try the above answers. – TheArchitecta Aug 03 '19 at 04:31
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This is probably an alsa issue. I had the same problem, but it got reported as a bug and fixed.
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+1: This is an ALSA bug. In addition to whatever workaround you can get, please file it - our audio maintainer is pretty good with these :)
The driver needs to have a correct mapping of all the various inputs your sound hardware has - one of which is a “you've got headphones plugged in” signal - and not all systems have correct mappings.
Running “ubuntu-bug” should get you the symptoms-based reporter, where you can get the relevant audio logs to a bug.
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It has worked for me since the upgrade to 10.10 on hda intel platforms. the previous solution was to open sound preferences, which triggered a probe and changeover to headphones. in my opinion, not a bug...tradeoff for speed increase by not polling the interface – RobotHumans Nov 29 '10 at 21:03
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I had the same issue. It appears that the new kernel did not correctly detect the sound card model that you have. You will have to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file and set the model manually with
options snd-hda-intel model=<model>
Unfortunately, finding the correct sound card model can take a little guess work. I took me several tries to find the sound card model that would detect the headphones correctly.
This link gives a list of sound card model: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043568
More information can be found on the Ubuntu Wiki.
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If you have to do this, file a bug too; the kernel should detect the module automatically. – Jeremy Kerr Jul 29 '10 at 05:57