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So on Ubuntu, when I boot into the normal window manager, everything works great. But when I boot into awesome, I need to use alsamixer to control the sound. The problem is that it no longer works after restarting for everything I try (headphones, default laptop speakers, and hdmi speakers).

I am able to use "amixer -c 1 sset 'Master' 75%" to change the volume from the terminal, and the changes can be seen from alsamixer, but still, no sound.

In the alsamixer menu, when pressing F6, it gives me 3 options: - (default), 0 HDA Intel HDMI, 1 HDA Intel PCH. Only the last option has anything meaningful with actual volume levels.

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  • I had the same problem. Didn't find proper solution, but as workaround I switched to Gnome Shell and set up volume settings there, and then logged back to awesome and sound worked. Jul 6, 2015 at 15:18

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This is not a solution but a workaround.

  1. sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol

  2. Run pulseaudio --start. If pulseaudio was already running run pulseaudio -k && pulseaudio --start

  3. Now you can access an easy config by running pavucontrol

  4. You'll see the tab Output Devices. Click on it, and then there are 3 buttons in the right hand side. If you don't have the proper themes, they won't have any picture. Toggle the first button.

Now the headphones should work.


I'm using Awesome inside lubuntu 20.04, and here pulseaudio and pavucontrol-qt (lxqt version of pavucontrol) is installed. So just killed and started pulseaudio daemon and then toggle the headphones switch.

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