I recently performed a fresh Ubuntu 22.10 install on my PC. The only issue I'm having so far has to do with two frontal audio jacks that my PC has. They are not being detected by Ubuntu (sort of). One of those frontal audio jacks is for the headphones and the other one is for the microphone. I used to have Windows installed on my PC before switching to Ubuntu and they actually worked, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.
Some of the possible solutions I've tried include:
Modify alsa-base.conf
- Get into
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
.
- Add
options snd-hda-intel model=OPTION
to the previous file, where OPTION could be a model from the ALSA HD Audio Models list. I've tested auto
. headset-mode
, 5stack
, dell-headset-dock
, laptop-amic
and dell-headset-multi
so far but the only model that actually tried to do something for me was dell-headset-multi
which allows me to use the microphone frontal audio jack, but no the headphones one.
Use pavucontrol
- Downloaded
pavucontrol
.
- Go to "Configuration" tab.
- At this point, I've read that you have to select the option that says "Analog Stereo Duplex" but the thing is that the option that I see says "Analog Stereo Duplex (unavailable)". I've selected it anyways but that doesn't fixes my issue. Instead, I get no sound at all.
Use alsa-tools-gui
- Downloaded
alsa-tools-gui
.
- Execute
hdajackretask
command and use the overrides. Rebooted the system but this option didn't work for me neither.
I decided to apt remove --purge
both pavucontrol
and alsa-tools-gui
since they were not really helping me, and also erased the options snd-hda-intel model=OPTION
line from /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
to get back to the beginning.
While trying other options for fixing this issue I noticed that when I executed the alsamixer
command from the terminal, there's a volume bar for my headphones. I then proceed to un-mute it and raise its volume (see picture below).
Alsamixer screenshot. The headphone volume bar is the second from left to right.
After that I do can hear something using my headphones but I can also hear something with my regular PC speakers. Both my headphones and PC speakers sound at the same time (but my headset microphone is not usable, though). I cannot just disconnected my speakers from the rear audio jack since that would also take away the sound from my headphones. They are like... linked?
When I go to GNOME's sound settings I only see one output device, so I can't mute my PC speakers and just leave my headphones audio. (Screenshot)
In the screenshot above you can also notice that my headset microphone is not detected.
(Update) This is my output of sudo lshw -c multimedia
:
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.1
logical name: card1
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC1
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC1D0
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D7p
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:37 memory:fbc20000-fbc23fff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
logical name: card0
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC0
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D2
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D2c
version: 05
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:35 memory:fbf10000-fbf13fff
Any idea on how this could be possibly fixed? I would really appreciate it. C: