On 19/7/19 8:23 pm, Bit Twister wrote:

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:57:17 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:

Subject: Re: headphones do not work intermittently
Why would anyone want their headphones do to work intermittently :D

As a Ham Radio enthusiast, I would suspect a hardware problem.
Inserting the headphones breaks the circuit to the speakers, but doesn't complete the circuit to the phones If the plug isn't dirty, the
contacts on the jack are bent.

Doug.

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On 2019-07-19, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

On 19/7/19 8:23 pm, Bit Twister wrote:

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:57:17 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:

Subject: Re: headphones do not work intermittently
Why would anyone want their headphones do to work intermittently :D

As a Ham Radio enthusiast, I would suspect a hardware problem.
Inserting the headphones breaks the circuit to the speakers, but doesn't complete the circuit to the phones If the plug isn't dirty, the
contacts on the jack are bent.

Same headphones (or different ones, it does not matter) same computer.
When I reboot it works. Does not sound like hardware to me

Doug.

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On 20/7/19 6:43 am, William Unruh wrote:

Same headphones (or different ones, it does not matter) same computer.
When I reboot it works. Does not sound like hardware to me

That is an extra piece of info, that I overlooked. It sounds rather
similar to my race problem, but only in the pattern. Or rather, a
reverse pattern. My printer doesn't work on bootup, but works later.
Your phones problem does the opposite. I had something like this happen
to me once, but only with one half-developed program. Did it start
after a change to your system?

'I see the "port" change from Speakers to Headphones as I plug in the headphones, but no sound comes out of them.'

Is any signal showing up in pavucontrol while there is no sound? In my
above case, there was no volume signal, so the audio was blocked before
then.

I am used to seeing the word "intermittently" mean "at random times,"
but your problem seems to have a rigid sequence of events. In these
cases, the Web suggests that you use alsamixer to look around.

Bits' little xterm might help here, or starting something from the
command line and looking for error lines there.

HTH,

Doug.

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On 20/7/19 11:56 pm, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

On 20/7/19 6:43 am, William Unruh wrote:

Same headphones (or different ones, it does not matter) same computer.
When I reboot it works. Does not sound like hardware to me

That is an extra piece of info, that I overlooked.  It sounds rather similar to my race problem, but only in the pattern.  Or rather, a
reverse pattern.  My printer doesn't work on bootup, but works later.
Your phones problem does the opposite.  I had something like this happen
to me once, but only with one half-developed program.  Did it start
after a change to your system?

'I see the "port" change from Speakers to Headphones as I plug in the headphones, but no sound comes out of them.'

Is any signal showing up in pavucontrol while there is no sound?  In my above case, there was no volume signal, so the audio was blocked before then.

I am used to seeing the word "intermittently" mean "at random times,"
but your problem seems to have a rigid sequence of events.  In these
cases, the Web suggests that you use alsamixer to look around.

Bits' little xterm might help here, or starting something from the
command line and looking for error lines there.

HTH,

Doug.

I am having audio issues in 7, but you are running 6.

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