On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:14:07 -0500 Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 18:47:00 +0000, Çağdaş Gökbel wrote: > > The sound is getting quieter. I'm not getting the same sound > > quality. I've tried many things but couldn't fix it. Unplugging and > > replugging the headphones solves the problem. However, I don't like > > constantly having to unplug and plug them back in. > > That sounds more like a loose wire than a software problem. Have you > tried a different set of headphones yet? Unfortunately, if the > problem is in the jack on the host, rather than in the headphones, > then a hardware fix might be less viable. > If it's always repeatable without disturbing the headphone cable and afterwards the connection is stable when the cable is wiggled, it's probably not a hardware intermittent. It looks like: 'Headphones unplugged, I'm turning off the hardware to save energy'. 'Headphones plugged in, OK, turn the hardware on, initialise'. Something in software is setting different defaults to the hardware initialisation, but is not getting called when the hardware is started up by replugging the headphones. Sorry, I used to deal regularly with Linux sound problems, but that was in early ALSA days, I haven't had any trouble in years so I know nothing of current sound software. There still ought to be some low-level status command to check sound card parameters etc. It's worth trying speaker-test in both states. Try whatever GUI sound controls you have to see if changing one then restoring it also restores the sound level. Does logging out then back in either: a) fix the initial problem, or b) unfix the initial problem after it has been fixed by replugging the headphones? Hopefully this will locate the problem to either boot or login iniotialisations. -- Joe
