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First of all, the audio used to play from the speaker but whenever I connected a headphone or speaker in the I, the sound didn't came. So I installed a realtek sound driver to fix this (actually I didn't find any relevant driver for my sound card so I installed it hoping it would show some light)

When I rebooted the system, my sound is completely gone and now ubuntu does not detect any sound devices in my system. I clearly installed wrong driver, now I need to remove and go to previous stage and find a correct driver.

I downloaded the latest package from realtek website, extracted the tar.gz file and ran the install file inside the extracted directory from the terminal using command sudo ./install

My laptop is: Dell Studio 1747, uses a speaker Creative Labs Sound X-Fi MB Sound Blaster and the chipset is INTEL PM55.

How can I fix this?

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  • how did you install the driver?
    – robin0800
    Feb 17, 2011 at 13:44
  • I downloaded the latest package from realtek website, extracted the tar.gz file and ran the install file inside the extracted directory from the terminal using command sudo ./install
    – Starx
    Feb 17, 2011 at 13:53
  • Are you still experiencing this issue?
    – jrg
    Nov 6, 2011 at 21:15
  • @jrg Yes, still, I audio jack does not get recognised still, but the laptop speaker works. Anyway I can fix this. I need to install the proper driver so that It will get identified, but after above mentioned incident, I haven't tried that driver again.
    – Starx
    Nov 7, 2011 at 5:33
  • Is this still on the same installation? Did you reinstall?
    – RolandiXor
    Nov 25, 2011 at 19:11

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Finally, with lots of trouble.... with no sound, wrong-driver problem. I got the sound system working on mine.

It was all about correct alsa option of hda-intel

  1. Follow Steps from this to get started on what you need
  2. For my laptop specific, configuration as per this page worked.
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I am new to Ubuntu latest version 64 bit clean install. I had no sound for headphones. This is how I fixed it.

  1. left single click system settings (the icon looks like crescent-wrench in front of a gear)

  2. left single click sound.

  3. left single click hardware tab.

  4. Select internal audio (not digital stereo HDMI output; I have this HDMI choice because I hooked up front panel HD sound you may not have this choice. The bios to my E350on usb3 motherboard selects it as the default device for me) after selecting internal audio;

  5. single left click the arrow under Settings for the selected device. This arrow is just to the left of Test Speakers A drop down menu should appear then select Analog Stereo Output (not to be confused with Analog Stereo Input)

That is how I got sound to my headphones. Good luck.

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    – htorque
    Jan 8, 2012 at 9:27
  • Well, I get two devices analog speaker(my laptop speakers) and when i connect any headphone or external speacker (analog headphone). They switch properly but no sound come through the device.
    – Starx
    Feb 5, 2012 at 12:42

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