I bought these nexxtech usb speakers for mt dell latitude d620 and I can't them to work I've tried going into sound settings everything and never thought these speakers would be a problem there only usb speakers has anybody had this problem

Hi there,

one thing for starters: A few periods or commas in the right places would make your text a lot easier to read and understand. IMO that's a matter of courtesy when asking for help. Besides, please choose a more meaningful title next time.

Back to topic: A USB speaker is technically a USB sound card that has a speaker connected. So in your hardware configuration, you should see a second sound card when these speakers are connected. What does 'lsusb' tell? Is that external sound card listed? If not, there's a hardware problem.

Second question is whether it is supperted by Linux Mint out of the box, or needs an extra driver or some configuration tweaking. With the USB vendor and device ID listed by 'lsusb', we could go searching for that information. Anything else is just poking around in the dark at that stage.

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They should work: in my experience Mint is one of the very few Debian distributions that doesn't give trouble. Plug them in and then do some checks in the terminal emulator:

$ aplay -l
This command will list your sound devices and include a line like
card 1: Device [USB Audio Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
If you don't get any mention of USB, then it hasn't found them. In that case, try them on another computer and see if they work there: they might be faulty.
If they are listed, the item listed as card 0 is the one currently in use and the sound configuration tool should let you switch.

$ cat /proc/asound/modules
This command will show if the usb module has been loaded into the kernel, and you should get
snd_usb_audio
If you don't, and they were plugged in when you booted up, try
sudo modprobe -v snd_usb_audio
and see what sort of error message you get.

thanks but still not working I thought if I could I could skype but I'll keep on googling thanks

It might help if you posted the make/model of the speakers, as well as the output of the commands that DavidMcCann suggested. You can also use the lsusb command to see whether the speakers are being detected in the first place.

Have you tested the speakers in another computer to verify that they do, indeed, work? They almost certainly do, but, in hardware testing, it is wise verify that new hardware is good out-of-the-box.

there nexxtech speakers and I had W7 on same laptop and got tired of windows getting slower and slower my laptop is a del latitude d620 w/2gig ram and 120 hd I go to sound settings in mint and it says its there but no sound

If the computer has built-in speakers, it's possible that externals are muted by default.

What is the output of the terminal commands suggested by DavidMcCann?