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My PC is dual booted with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10. And it has dual audio port (front and rear) rear audio jack is working well but my front panel audio jack is not working in Ubuntu 16.04 (it's fine in Windows).
It was fine in Ubuntu 14.04.
I tried alsamixer but didn't helped me.

Sunad
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What helped for me was to run alsamixer with headphones in. Then moving right to the column marked "Auto-Mute mode" and pressing down to disable it.

Headphones then worked.

I also ran sudo alsactl store for good luck.

Seems to have worked.

Diederik
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    Thanks! This worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04. alsactl store wasn't even necessary. – Egor Tensin Jun 26 '18 at 23:17
  • @EgorTensin But each time I switch from rear audio speaker to the front audio, I have to use that command and reset again... Same for you? – Rick Jan 07 '19 at 13:15
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    @Rick I'm sorry I don't remember how I solved this eventually. It works without any workarounds now, but I honestly don't remember what I did. One thing I did though was I connected a 3.5mm/mic splitter (like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Maeline-Female-Plated-Headphone-Splitter/dp/B00PYZ2BT4?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_4) to the front panel headphones/mic ports, and connected my headphones via that cable. – Egor Tensin Jan 09 '19 at 18:48
  • Can confirm that alsactl store wasn't needed. – Devesh Mar 13 '19 at 00:48
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  1. Open your Terminal (ctrl+alt+t)
  2. Enter the command alsamixer -c 1 in terminal
  3. Use right arrow button and go to the headphone view
  4. Press m to unmute it and press up arrow button to increase the sound view
Sadia
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run pavucontrol in the terminal and change the output configuration.

Zoro
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Have you tried to search this forum? There seem to be several similar issues with front panel and 16.04.

This one shows GUI solution Front audio is not working on 16.04

And this one shows terminal solution Front Audio Panel Issue

Insert your head phones and in Terminal run the command alsamixer, and then switch the volume bar for headphone by pressing M.

If the sound appears and everything goes smooth then you can save the result of alsamixer by running the command

sudo alsactl store

This should save alsamixer configurations to /etc/asound.state which gets loaded every startup.

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