Front Audio Jacks: No sound. <Solved>

[Smeejo1]

Coming over to linux from Windows. On windows my audio jacks on the front of my computer worked fine. Now on linux I get sound out of the back audio jacks but not the front. I was using manjaro but couldn't get either front or back to work and usb ports on front didn't work either. Switched to using Linux Mint 19 (Cinnamon) now and everything works except the Front audio jack.

I've ran the driver update, system updates, and followed everything the welcome screen suggested for first steps. My motherboard manufacturer (msi 760GM-P23(FX)) doesn't have any drivers for linux listed at all, only windows. I've searched through these forums and using startpage but don't see anything that fits my issue.

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System:    Host: jlsbr-MS-7641 Kernel: 4.15.0-39-generic x86_64
           bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
           Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: MSI model: 760GM-P23(FX) (MS-7641) v: 3.0 serial: N/A
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: V17.13 date: 12/14/2012
CPU:       Quad core AMD FX-4300 (-MCP-) 
           arch: Bulldozer rev.0 cache: 8192 KB
           
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 30400
           clock speeds: max: 3800 MHz 1: 2057 MHz 2: 2483 MHz 3: 1439 MHz
           4: 1545 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
           version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA Device 0fbc driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-39-generic
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e800 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (8.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_DT01ACA0 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 458G used: 38G (9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 27.6C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:36C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 200 Uptime: 3:43 Memory: 1965.4/16037.5MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56 

[jerson]

My motherboard is a Gigabyte G31M and have similar ports for audio - front jacks for headphones out and microphone in. the back panel has LineOut, Headphones and MIC in. I found that plugging in headphones into the front jack didn't work. Click on the speaker icon in tray and select output device as headphones. That got it working. The Line output option and Headphones output both work for the back ports of headphones/lineout. That is for the 5.1 option perhaps.

[MrEen]

Hi Smeejo1, and welcome to the forum.

The first thing to check is to run alsamixer in the terminal. When it opens, you may have to press F6 to change audio cards. Look for columns that have MM at the bottom which means that item is muted. Use the right/left arrow keys to select columns and press the m key to unmute. Be aware that there may be more columns than you can see. Keep using the right arrow key until no new columns appear.

If that doesn't help, please add the results of running aplay -l in the terminal in your next post. Also, start a song or video then run pacmd list-sinks in the terminal and add that output as well.

Good luck.

[Smeejo1]

Aplay -l shows

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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

pacmd list-sinks shows

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1 sink(s) available.
  * index: 34
	name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.iec958-stereo>
	driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
	flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
	state: RUNNING
	suspend cause: 
	priority: 9038
	volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB,   front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
	        balance 0.00
	base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
	volume steps: 65537
	muted: no
	current latency: 24.91 ms
	max request: 4 KiB
	max rewind: 64 KiB
	monitor source: 35
	sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
	channel map: front-left,front-right
	             Stereo
	used by: 1
	linked by: 1
	configured latency: 25.01 ms; range is 0.50 .. 371.52 ms
	card: 1 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_14.2>
	module: 8
	properties:
		alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
		device.api = "alsa"
		device.class = "sound"
		alsa.class = "generic"
		alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
		alsa.name = "ALC887-VD Digital"
		alsa.id = "ALC887-VD Digital"
		alsa.subdevice = "0"
		alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
		alsa.device = "1"
		alsa.card = "0"
		alsa.card_name = "HDA ATI SB"
		alsa.long_card_name = "HDA ATI SB at 0xfcff4000 irq 16"
		alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
		device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:14.2"
		sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card0"
		device.bus = "pci"
		device.vendor.id = "1002"
		device.vendor.name = "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]"
		device.product.id = "4383"
		device.product.name = "SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)"
		device.form_factor = "internal"
		device.string = "iec958:0"
		device.buffering.buffer_size = "65536"
		device.buffering.fragment_size = "32768"
		device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
		device.profile.name = "iec958-stereo"
		device.profile.description = "Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
		device.description = "Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
		alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC887-VD"
		alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0887,1462f641,00100302"
		module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
		device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
	ports:
		iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF) (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
			properties:
				
	active port: <iec958-stereo-output>

[MrEen]

I think this might fix you.

Install and run PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) and go to the Configuration tab. Set the Profile that doesn't have HDMI settings to Analog Stereo Duplex. Start something with sound and if you still don't hear anything check the Output Devices tab and the Playback tab to see if you need to change anything in those.

Hope that helps.

[Smeejo1]

PulseAudio fixed it. Changed the configuration tab for "built in audio" to Analog Stereo Duplex which enabled the headphones option for output devices.

Thanks for your help everyone.

[MrEen]

That's great Smeejo1! Happy to help.