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Remember: I strongly recommend you Start With Linux Mint Mate! Some of the things described here will only work with Linux Mint Mate. But some others could also be useful on other systems.
Fix The Speaker
I had this problem with the other Linux distributions as well: the headphones are OK but the internal speaker is not working. Alsamixer is responsible for that. We can fix that.
EDIT Fri, 09 Apr 2021: What follows is a better way to fix the speaker, thanks to MrEen ! If you followed my tutorial before, you can now do this new fix, but you will also need to "undo" what you did before. See my next post, down this page.
- Look for the
/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf
file. - Right-click to open this file as administrator if you can, or else type this in the terminal:
sudo xed /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf
and when the file opens find this section:
Change it to this:Code: Select all
; This profile path is intended to control the speaker, let's mute headphones ; else there will be a spike when plugging in headphones [Element Headphone] switch = off volume = off
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; This profile path is intended to control the speaker, let's mute headphones ; else there will be a spike when plugging in headphones [Element Headphone] switch = mute volume = merge
- Save and close the file, ignore the terminal warnings and reboot.
Now, you should get both left and right channels mixed into this monophonic internal speaker. And when you plug in your headphones, you still get this good quality stereo sound, and the speaker is off when you are using your headphones. So, everything is now just perfect!
NOTE: Be aware that a pulseaudio update might overwrite your changes. In that case, you'll need to follow the same steps again.
NOTE: This was tested on Linux Mint MATE 18.3 Sylvia (32-bit), Kernel Linux 4.15.0-140-generic i686, MATE 1.18.0, in April 2021. You should always get the latests updates. Back in 2017, the microphone was not working properly, so there was a section to fix the microphone as well. But now this is not needed anymore and so, this section is deleted. Check the other post(s) down this page for archive purposes.
Sources:
viewtopic.php?p=1791086#p1791086
Changing alsa-base.conf to fix the speaker:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/audio_intel_hda (in french...)
https://www.alsa-project.org/main/index ... _Intel_HDA
http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-ker ... xt;hb=HEAD
Fixing the microphone:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/279407/ ... put-volume