I tried almost everything I could find that made sense, and in the end it seems like RadarNyan's workaround is what I was looking for.
The headphones sometimes did work and sometimes didn't but I couldn't find any corelation with anything I was doing. It must have been this... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1087428 Title: [K55VD, Realtek ALC270, Black Headphone Out, Right] No sound at all To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1087428/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs