I recently updated my computer and noticed that whenever I connect my headphones, the sound goes away. After a crazy amount of troubleshooting, I noticed that “Line Out” goes to zero as soon as I connect my headphone. The current fix I have it to always reset it using amixer -c 0 set ‘Line Out’ 80%. Here is a video showing how the sound goes to zero as soon as I connect a headphone. At this point, I’m tired having to run the above command every time I connect my headphones. Is this a kernel issue ? Is there a way to fix this without having to reinstall the os again ?
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With the headphones plugged in, what does the output of these two commands show?
pactl list short sinks
pactl get-default-sink
I changed the output from Analog Stereo Output to Pro Output so I could try out differernt options, but neither works.
~ ❯ pactl list short sinks
56 alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.pro-output-3 PipeWire s32le 8ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
57 alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.pro-output-7 PipeWire s32le 8ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
58 alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.pro-output-8 PipeWire s32le 8ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
59 alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.pro-output-9 PipeWire s32le 8ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
60 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.pro-output-0 PipeWire s32le 2ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
61 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.pro-output-3 PipeWire s32le 8ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
62 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.pro-output-7 PipeWire s32le 8ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
63 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.pro-output-8 PipeWire s32le 8ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
~ ❯ pactl get-default-sink
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.pro-output-0
What’s the output of those commands when using the Analog Stereo profile?
~ ❯ pactl list short sinks
257 alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo PipeWire s32le 2ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
269 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo PipeWire s32le 2ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
~ ❯ pactl get-default-sink
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo