I am having the exact same issue, and am also on an HP device. Problem started happening somewhere in the last month. Anyway I solved it with the following values for the Speaker Element:
[Element Speaker] switch = mute volume = zero (note the 'volume = zero', which was not suggested in the comments above) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921397 Title: Speaker audio channel goes mute after plugging in the headphone To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/921397/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
