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Another possibility is to use powered headphones which these days can be quite decent for as low as 20 bucks. -- Behringer Powered Headphones --. I prefer using an actual Home Theater type Receiver/Audio Center but powered headphones ain't too shabby these days.
Here's a sample of modern Sony A/V Receivers at various price ranges. -- Some Modern Sony Receivers --- Edit: oops. The original page showed me 5 different Sony A/V receivers starting at under 200 bucks but now all i see is one I like at more than twice that. It is really worthwhile though to look at the photo of the back panel to see all the modern connectors and options. |
If you can route the audio via HDMI to the monitor and the monitor has speakers, said monitor will most likely have a headphone jack as well. A while back this is how I did it to permanently route audio to a 1080p TV; pre-pulseaudio 14.1. I then used the TV speakers or plugged in wireless headphones.
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pcm.!default { http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...m_plugins.html https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA and various LQ and XMBC (now has a new name?) posts. |
@kingbeowulf,
Many thanks for the suggestion, but, unfortunately, the monitor doesn't have output jacks of any kind. :) |
Ok lets confirm the many places where either muting can occur or config "wrong" can occur
pls post the contents to these files...if not found say so please Quote:
home user found at .config/pulse? take a screenshot of (the default command shows output only) Code:
alsamixer -c0 then see if you can take a screenshot of the correct device if it can found in that last command by pressing F6 2) if you know how to take a snippet of log....show the snippets for all hardware for sound for a recent boot please. 3) have you changed any setting in /etc/modprobe.d? 4) now run pavucontrol post a timed screenshot of the pulldowns in the config tab for the various devices available as seen by pulseaudio (PA) if PA sees only hdmi just say so http://imgur.com/a/R7WU1 ^ so this example would show SPDIF has been selected which is not what you want. |
According with the OP, the built-in audio is dead. Physically dead. Broken. Not working anymore.
Also, to note that he's NOT a rookie, then I trust him about diagnostics. Then, no software Voodoo would help... ;) |
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Put in a ten Dollar USB "sound card" and plugged in the headphones. That works, but "solving the problem" would require a new motherboard.
I'll think I'll wait until the dust settles regarding the new Ryzen chips and Linux support for the same. |
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