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I have damaged jack input and my system thinks I have headphones plugged in. On a Windows machine I was able to manually switch from headphones to speakers permanently.

How i can do this in Ubuntu ?

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  • I think this is not possible in Ubuntu although in Debian it was possible...
    – Dawid
    Aug 26, 2012 at 1:13

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You can try asking pulseaudio to select a different port for the sink (sink is pulseaudio parlance for something where audio "goes").

I suggest you install pavucontrol, it will let you select a specific port, instead of just relying on what the kernel auto-selects for you.

This could potentially be automated by adding a short script with pactl to your startup programs list, the script would do something like:

pactl set-sink-port 0 analog-output-speaker
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  • installed pavucontrol and it's strange but when I select speakers and unplug headphones there is still no sound but when I have headphones plugged in and change to speakers the sound in headphones gets louder. What's more sound control displays only HDMI port and Headphones (image link: img12.imageshack.us/img12/5827/zrzutekranuz20120814221.png) And that command gave me this: dawid@phoenix:~$ pactl set-sink-port 0 analog-output-speakers Failure: No such entity dawid@phoenix:~$
    – Dawid
    Aug 14, 2012 at 20:15
  • The command may be different based on your sink configuration, if you like you can run pactl list sinks and put the output in a pastebin (pastebin.ubuntu.com) and I can give you an updated version. It will potentially do the same as pavucontrol so I can't guarantee it'll work :(
    – roadmr
    Aug 15, 2012 at 13:20
  • pastebin.ubuntu.com/1149199 But what interests me is the State: SUSPENDED
    – Dawid
    Aug 15, 2012 at 17:45
  • ok pactl set-sink-port 0 analog-output-speaker should work. State: SUSPENDED just means the sink is not playing any audio at the moment, start watching a youtube video and you'll see that change to RUNNING.
    – roadmr
    Aug 15, 2012 at 18:34
  • pavucontrol shows speakers... but still no sound :/ only in headphones
    – Dawid
    Aug 15, 2012 at 20:30

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