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I'm still unable to get sound to my headphone jack on my IBM ThinkPad T61 after a recent update to 13.10. When I plug the headphones into the jack, there is sound for about 1 second and then it cuts out. The laptop speakers work fine. I've tried editing analog-output.conf and analog-output-headphones.conf but haven't been successful. I've also uninstalled/reinstalled pulseaudio and have tried using alsamixer.

What am I doing wrong? I'm pulling my hair out!

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Type alsamixer into your terminal. Then scroll with your directional keys to the right until the tab "auto-mut" is highlighted red. If your problem is anything like mine, it will be "Enabled." Hit the up directional arrow to change the status to "Disabled." That did the trick for me.

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I had the same issue since 13.10 upgrade. I poked around in alsamixer, sytematically changing settings, and found that if I changed the automute setting to line out. It worked for me, hopefully it will work for you.

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    Could you expand your answer to be more clear on what exactly to do? What "automute setting" exactly where?
    – gertvdijk
    Oct 23, 2013 at 13:38
  • from terminal run alsamixer. hit f5 to see all sound drives. scroll to the right and look for <auto-mut> change that to line out.
    – user206634
    Oct 24, 2013 at 17:02
  • Please edit your answer to include that. That's how this site works.
    – gertvdijk
    Oct 24, 2013 at 20:21

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