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From: Robin Atwood <robin@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:32:09
Message-Id: 201708141931.48664.robin@binro.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound by Mick
1 On Monday 14 August 2017, Mick wrote:
2 > On Sunday 13 Aug 2017 20:27:12 Robin Atwood wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 12 August 2017, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
4 > > However, grepping dmesg was interesting:
5 > >
6 > > # grep HDA /var/log/dmesg
7 > > [ 10.981754] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as
8 > > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/hdaudioC0D0/inp
9 > > ut9
10 > > [ 10.981963] input: HDA Intel MID Mic as
11 > > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
12 > > [ 10.982033] input: HDA Intel MID Dock Mic as
13 > > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
14 > > [ 10.982102] input: HDA Intel MID Dock Headphone as
15 > > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input
16 > > 12
17 > > [ 10.982171] input: HDA Intel MID Headphone as
18 > > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13
19 >
20 > The above shows you have your laptop docked. When docked the on board
21 > speakers are usually disconnected.
22 >
23 > It's been a very long time since I docked a laptop and my memory is not
24 > very reliable, but I recall fixing a similar problem by selecting a
25 > different output device. I don't know if you can do this from alsamixer,
26 > but you should be able to do it from pulseaudio, or from whatever GUI your
27 > desktop provides for managing audio devices. Switch over from
28 > headphones/docking station to speakers and you should be OK.
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30 That's very interesting and would explain a lot except that I don't have a
31 dock! So does anybody have an idea as to why the TP has decided it's been
32 docked when it hasn't? There are not currently any other output devices to
33 select (AFAICT).
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35 Thanks
36 Robin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>