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I've tried multiple ways to solve my problem as described in other topics in this forum, but none succeeded. The Headphones sound worked when I first installed Ubuntu 12.10, but after a few updates it ceased to function. Sound works fine with the speakers but as soon as I insert the jack, there is nothing but silence. I've checked Alsamixer and when I insert the jack it mutes the speakers but not the Headphones column. I've even tried installing the drivers from Realtek but it was a very bad idea since it crashed my OS completely and I had to re-install everything. I'm a bit on the newbie in this Ubuntu thing in case you haven't noticed ;) Anyway I would really appreciate some help here since I have a small baby and she sleeps a lot so I can't disturb her with the sound coming from the speakers. I have a Toshiba Satellite P200-1IE and Ubuntu 12.10. Thanks in advance

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  • Please post the contents of /var/lib/alsa/asound.state Dec 29, 2012 at 15:49
  • Ok, here it is: ubuntuone.com/3EwMdk6AdMcfwOFBieo2yo Dec 29, 2012 at 19:38
  • Try setting the Front Headphone Jack to true with alsamixer. Dec 29, 2012 at 23:37
  • Ok, I edited the above mentioned file, and set the value beneath Front Headphone Jack to true... but without sucess... still no sound from the headphones... Dec 30, 2012 at 1:18

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  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Run alsamixer (type the command and hit Enter)
  3. Press F6 then just disable the automute button.

Please make sure that you have your headphone jack inserted while doing all this.

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  • Disabling auto-mute turns on the sound on the normal speakers not on the headphones.
    – Calmarius
    Oct 5, 2013 at 14:34
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I had the same issue (same computer / same problem). I resolved it by installing the lastest drivers from alsa-project:

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.25.tar.bz2
tar -jxf alsa-driver-1.0.25.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.25/
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-oss=yes
make
sudo make install

restart your computer and enjoy.

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I had the same problem and this fixed it for me:

  1. Download the basic run.py script to your preferred download folder by following the instructions on http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/HDA_Analyzer i.e. run the following command in a terminal wget -O run.py http://www.alsa-project.org/hda-analyzer.py
  2. Check that the permissions of run.py are set to root by using sudo chown root:root /<download location>/run.py
  3. In a terminal change run.py to an executable file using sudo chmod +x /<download location>/run.py
  4. Run the script in a terminal sudo python run.py
  5. In the left-hand sidebar select Node[0x15] PIN
  6. Check the box next to EAPD
  7. Click Exp then save as 'snd_hda_codec_diff.py' in /etc
  8. Add "python /etc/snd_hda_codec_diff.py" without the quotes to the file /etc/rc.local just above the line "exit 0" with your favourite editor

After the next reboot your headphones should work. Hope this helps.

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In this file: /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-headphones.conf

Comment those line as shown:
[Jack Front Headphone]
#required-any = any

[Jack Headphone]
#required-any = any

Restart PulseAudio without root: pulseaudio -k

After that Headphones should appear in the System settings > Sound, but they will be disabled. Click on them and then button to enable them. WARNING: only the audio output that is selected will produce sound!

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  • It didn't work for me. i m using toshiba sattelite.Do I need to restart system after this change?
    – sudmong
    Jan 26, 2013 at 19:32
  • Doesn't work, even screws up normal speaker output: sound doesn't return after headphones removed.
    – Calmarius
    Oct 5, 2013 at 14:33

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