I'm having issues getting sound output on my external sound devices. I currently have an external monitor with integrated speakers connected to a DisplayLink docking station and a Bluetooth headset. I believe this issue started after upgrading from Ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04, as I had no such issues with these sound devices before upgrading.
So far I've tried:
- Setting both devices as default sound output in the sound settings. While I was able to select the correct device, the sound output comes from my laptop speakers. (An interesting side note is that I did manage to get sound output on my monitor by plugging and unplugging a 3mm jackplug on my laptop's headphone output while playing a video. However, when stopping and restarting video playback, the audio output reverts the integrated speaker.)
- Change settings in
pavucontrol
andalsamixer
. Neither did anything to get output from external sound units. lspci
detects soundcard (Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
). This seems to be working properly.- Reinstalling ALSA and PulseAudio (according to maketecheasier's guide "How to Fix the No Sound Issue in Ubuntu"). This only made things worse. I am no longer able to test audio from any device in the sound settings (including integrated speakers), the aforementioned trick with the jackplug no longer works, and my Bluetooth headphones now disconnects immediately after connecting to the laptop.
Any ideas how to get sound output from external devices and prevent my Bluetooth headset from disconnecting?
18.04
). The built-in speakers more or less work (they broke after following the guide, but I managed to fix them again), but not headphones. Runningpavucontrol
shows that it thinks the headphones are getting sound. I'm at a loss.sudo apt-get clean
,sudo apt-get update
,sudo apt-get upgrade
? Best of luck.