I'm running a Dell Inspiron 17-7779 running Ubuntu 21.10 and kernel 5.13.0-19. According to the BIOS, it has a RealTek ALC-3253 Audio chip, and running lspci gives this repsonse
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
Audio plays normally through the internal speakers, but when I plug in headphones, there's no audio. According to PulseAudio Volume Mixer, sound is playing on the channels, but there's no sound in the headphones
Occasionally, it will work, I'd estimate about once in every five times I start the laptop, but will often stop working while running.
I've tried switching from PulseAudio to PipeWire with no luck
patcl info
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.38)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
running pacmd list-sinks gives this
1 sink(s) available.
* index: 1
name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
state: SUSPENDED
suspend cause: APPLICATION|IDLE
priority: 9039
volume: front-left: 30129 / 46% / -20.25 dB, front-right: 30129 / 46% / -20.25 dB
balance 0.00
base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
volume steps: 65537
muted: no
current latency: 0.00 ms
max request: 0 KiB
max rewind: 0 KiB
monitor source: 1
sample spec: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
channel map: front-left,front-right
Stereo
used by: 0
linked by: 0
configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 2000.00 ms
card: 0 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3>
module: 22
properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "ALC3253 Analog"
alsa.id = "ALC3253 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xd5128000 irq 150"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "9d71"
device.product.name = "Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "384000"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "192000"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
ports:
analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"
analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
active port: <analog-output-headphones>
(with audio playing and the headphones plugged in)
It's a dual boot machine, and the same headphones work in Windows, and other devices.
I've noticed that, occasionally when I open Audacity, some of the options are not available for playback. Sometimes there's no "default" option, there's just "hdmi"
