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And Mr Een,
thank you again for your expert help and patience.

Apologies, not looked here for weeks - getting on with life! Just a thought, I have a pc tower I can fit out from scratch. If I was to buy a mobo (used and cheap) what would be ideal for Mint? Where would I go for this info? I have googled and there's not a lot - most say check out each mobo, but gi...

Also, yes, thanks, I will use it for a bit and report back if there are any issues.

Have changed to 'on', it's still working! Wow, that was a real mission, and many thanks for your patience.
Tony

Yes, that worked. I now have 'phones working on both headphone and line outputs. I had to use alsamixer as you described. Must be progress!

Here it is! Just for the moment I have 2 pairs of headphones plugged into headphone and line outputs - I am assuming these are both the same impedance, but wanted to be sure there was nothing going on with my amp, although I had checked all was correctly connected. As before, headphone output at the...

Hi, no change through this. Headphone output working throughout, line out still faint only. tony@tony-G31M-ES2L ~ $ amixer set Line toggle Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%]...

Still C0D2! tony@tony-G31M-ES2L ~ $ dmesg | grep snd [ 44.429340] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2: autoconfig for ALC883: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line [ 44.429344] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) [ 44.429346] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2...

Sorry, I'm a bit rushed this morning. Will get back to this asap. Seems to be some light dawning!

Here we go: tony@tony-G31M-ES2L ~ $ amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback chan...

And I've been extra dim witted here - there is no sound card. I had the amp plugged into the jacks at the back, which are on the motherboard. I had a sound card in the past, but not in the present setup. Thanks again!

Here it is, Oh Guru! tony@tony-G31M-ES2L ~ $ inxi -A Audio: Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-38-generic tony@tony-G31M-ES2L ~ $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express...

I am sorry, you need to explain to me what a usb sound card does. There is an audio and mic output/input from the jack, so why is it useful? Thanks.

Hi Phd21, thanks for the ideas. I have never heard of an external usb sound card adapter. I had been wondering about replacing the sound card. Or oven the motherboard, as mine is knocking 15yrs old and I could probably pick up something with more zest cheaply. The main thing that stops me is the pos...

I just thought to repeat aforesaid command, did so, and the sound on headphones is back. This is great. I restarted and it is still working. I have other things to do now but will keep checking and report back. Fingers crossed.

There is only 4.10.0 - 0-38 in grub. generic, upstart,recovery. I tried the command line suggested with an odd result. Few seconds I had sound on headphones. Then it went completely dead there. I tried a second pair just in case there was an intermittent broken lead, still dead. Also, and this has a...

4.15 hangs too. Now removed. Worth trying any of the others?

ps,thanks, had looked at pavucontrol in my first wave of googled fixes. Just now checked again, and it isn't muted.

It is actually fairly reassuring to see I am not the only person who does daft things ... So, booted up pressing shift. Grub menu appeared, chose advanced .... several options, found '44-166 generic'. Enter. Boot started, Mint symbol appeared. Hung. Left ten minutes, no change. Had to turn off power...

(nor does grub come up without pressing space).