Ubuntu advice
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I recently went a little overboard with Fslint and removed files necessary to maintain an operating operating system. Had to start from scratch with a fresh install but fortunately didn't lose any of my files in the process. In fact, I enjoyed installing Ubuntu from a USB so much I did it twice. The first time was to work out any kinks and the second was being extra 'everything is right'.
That being said. The one thing I haven't been able to return to normal is with the sound. When I plug headphones in my speakers remain on. Turns out after googling I am not the only one and there seem to be a thousand different solutions, none of which has worked for me. Clicking auto-mute in the Alsamixer seemed to be the easiest but like some others that option is (auto-mute clicky) is not available to me (as well as some others). Installing PulseAudio and all of it's little extras also didn't help. Changing a line of text in etc/pulse/default.pa as well as something similar via terminal didn't work either.
Anyone out there have any idea? Besides manually turning off the speakers (which involves standing up and walking across the room) each time I want to listen to something that I don't necessarily want others to hear. Just so you don't think I'm listening to Taylor Swift singles or something, it's the porn I worry about.
PORN because I don't stay out too late, or got nothing in my brain, like a blank space where I could write your name.
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Don't confuse ALSA with PulseAudio as they are two different things. What you may need to do is install the actual PulseAudio server daemon, which feeds to ALSA, then adjust the mixer settings within PulseAudio itself. From there, you need to make sure that everything is set to use PulseAudio, as to not run into problems with multiple sound instances not being able to pipe through ALSA directly.
To do this, you will need the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install pulseaudio unity-control-center paprefs paman pasystray pavumeter padevchooser pavucontrol
sudo shutdown -r nowOnce you have run these commands, you should be back in business to use your Volume Control mixer at the top right corner of the screen…. You may also need to uninstall certain ALSA packages to make it work such as the ALSA mixer, however this is not necessarily the case, depending on your computer's hardware strangely enough.
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Thank you very much, I owe you a rough handy j with an "M. Night Shyamalan" ending.
I ran all the commands. However I notice you said "you should be back in business to use your Volume Control mixer" although as far as I can tell it was never out of business. I wouldn't hazard to guess what ALSA packages to remove and unfortunately I still have sound coming from both speakers and headphones.
It's just so fracking strange that plugging in the headphones used to kill the speakers but now not, no hardware was changed in the reinstall.
In related/unrelated news: I removed old linux kernels today to see if I could and I guess to facilitate updating the kernel even though I don't understand or see how that would effect something that seems so simple…
