Hi, I'm really new to linux. I just installed mint 17.3 on my PC and everything seems to have gone fine but there is no audio. I've run update manager and looked for new drivers and that hasn't helped. When I open the sound settings, the output only has an option for "HDMI/DisplayPort 2". Thing is, my monitor has no speakers built into it. Additionally, when I plug my headphones in, I don't get any audio there either. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Change the output from HDMI to the headphone jack. You'll probably need to install the pulseaudio volume control. With that you can configure the input and outputs, and set the volume. Or you can buy a passthhrough converter which has analog audio output and allows the video to pass through to the monitor, or you can buy a USB DAC which connects to a USB port and has audio output via RCA jacks, 3.5mm stereo jack, or both. The cheapest is obviously to set the output to the built-in 3.5mm jack, but there are multiple options. If you have built-in speakers, you can set the output to those.

Hi & Welcome to Linux Questions.

Congrads on you LM installation.-

The sound might be muted in the alsamixer. Open your terminal and type:
When you do you'll see multiple columns. Use your arrow keys to go to each column and raise up the master, pcm and etc. At the bottom of each column you should have what looks like this:

If at the bottom of the column you see [mm] that means it's muted.
To un-mute each column just type the 'm'.

When done close the terminal.

Hope that helps.

If you still don't have sound you may want to post what sound card you have so someone can help you with it.
To find out what sound card is on your mobo run this command:

Here's a video by Frostbite if you have trouble with alsamixer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWmXG-e6yzI

see topic and the solution in post #12 of http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ve-4175534057/ ?