My speakers and headphone doesn't work when i connect my headphone to my laptop

Question

My speakers work correctly, but whenever I connect headphones to my laptop my headphone doesn't work and if I disconnect headphone speakers doesn't work too, till I restart the laptop I have Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop Please help me ... thank you

Answer 1

Have you tried using alsa? It's a terminal application that lets you see a list of all audio devices connected to your system. Check if the settings are unchanged when you plug in/out your headphone.

Try pressing F6 to make sure you have selected the current sound card. Also make sure the devices don't get muted.

Answer 2

Do this way:

sudo alsa force-reload
reboot
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo alsa force-reload
reboot