Good afternoon, On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 10:06 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ralf and Chris > and the hopefully many lucky and happy ALSA users, > > Ralf Mardorf schrieb am 12. November 2026 > > > On Thu, 2026-11-12 at 09:13 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > > > I wonder if you have tried booting from a live image of another > > > > distribution, for example Ubuntu? > > > > > > > This costs little time and there is no need to install - just run > > > > from the memory stick. > > > > > > you are right that, it is not effort. But I do not expect that there > > > are differences between the alsa packages (in debian format), whether > > > they are in a live system, for installation, from Debian, Mint, Ubuntu > > > or some other distribution. > > > it's possible that an Ubuntu or Xubuntu live media automatically > > configures the correct headphone driver foo. > I agree with Ralf, and given that this test is easy to do, it's worth trying. > > > Although this mailing list is for ALSA in general, I could imagine that > > it's mostly used by people who don't tend to use onboard devices, I > > could be wrong about that. However, I'm certain that I've read about the > > headphone problem time and again on distro's user lists, and there it > > was often solved via an ALSA configuration. > > > Since you've already gone through so many steps, I wouldn't have done > > that, you might want to try these last two steps. Try out a live media > > (my recommendation would be Ubuntu or Xubuntu) > > I found an Xubuntu 20.04 Live-DVD here. The mixer displays that the > mp3-file is played, but the loudspeaker and the headphone deliver just > noise. > There is no good reason to try a six year old and off support version of Ubuntu; I strongly suggest instead that you try an Ubuntu 26.04 live image, which is the latest long-term support version and only 7 months old. You will need a USB stick of at least 8GB and some means to write the image to the memory stick. The 26.04.1 download can be found here https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop If you do install this operating system, as opposed to just running it off the memory stick, there may be some additional drivers that the system is willing to install for you (some of these are partially or fully closed-source). If you don't want to try Ubuntu, an alternative worth considering is Linux Mint which purports to handle more hardware edge cases. Look here: https://linuxmint.com/ -- Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com C'est ma façon de parler.
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