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I am having troubles with the volume on my computer. The keyboard is working fine but when I turn the volume up and down, the indicator shows it, but the sound doesn't change. If I start the computer with a low volume it stays low no matter what I do. If I plug in headphones they are not recognized. If I restart with headphones though, it stays with headphones setting (so it stays with whatever setting I start, and I'm not able to change it after start).

I already tried purging and reinstalling pulseaudio and erasing the configuration folders (.pulse) doesn't do anything.

Thanks

  • System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 64-bit
  • Memory: 16GB
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz × 8
  • Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2
  • Disk: 1TB
MsKK
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At the end, it was this issue here.

I solved it by this solution mentioned there:

I think I may have solved the issue. Upon examining /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, I noticed that it no longer had the following line.

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

I re-added this line, saved, rebooted, and everything seems to be working now.

MsKK
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I had a similar issue on Ubuntu 19.10. My audio controls did not work and the volume indicator wouldn't even show up at all. These issues occured after messing around with QJackCTL. I can confirm that adding the above line into the alsa-base.conf file does fix the problem.

UPDATE: Another source of this issue is if you have QJackCTL set to run on login. Disabling this through Cadence or by some other means may fix the problem.

Bendersr
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For me the issue was that I did not have pulseaudio installed

you can check by doing :

pulseaudio --version

if you need to install

sudo apt install pulseaudio

and then you can restart with

pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload

Important to mention that before installing pulseaudio I tried adding that line as per @Mskk's answer, but it did not help.

Alex R.
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Ubuntu 20.04. When activating pulseeffects, volume control becomes disabled. Only control at that point is by the manual controls in pulseefects app. When pressing volume control on keyboard, speaker icon on screen says pulseeffects(mic). Fix = settings/sound/output change from pulseeffects(mic) to pulseeffects(apps) or headphones - built-in audio. Keyboard volume control and speaker slider works again with effects still active.

redfox
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