First of all, thanks for replying! I did this already when I noticed the problem a couple days ago with my main pair and with some gaming gear to no avail. But, since you asked, I did it again with all the wired headphones I could find around, even some crappy cellphone headphones and the results are the same: extremely low sound and heavily distorted. I even tried with a P2 cable extender and the problem remains, I'm 100% sure that it isn't my headphones.
Also tried all those headphones and cable extender on Windows and everything works fine. (all of them work perfectly on other devices running Android, on my PS4 through the DualShock jack and with my smart TV) It's important to point out that I know of at least another user of this machine facing the same issue. He posted about HDMI output problems - that I can confirm on my laptop as well - on the Linux Mint (link down below) forums and I got in touch with him, so I don't think that this has something to do with the physical connection, specially since the distortion goes away for a bit if you delete the /.config/pulse directory. I didn't file a bug report about the HDMI output because it isn't as important as the headphone output for my workflow. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=303303 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850702 Title: [Samsung Notebook 7 Pro, Realtek ALC256, headphone jack] Headphone sound is faint and distorted Status in alsa-driver package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I can't get sound of my laptop (Samsung Notebook 7 Force) through the headphone jack. The speakers work fine. When I plug a headphone, I can hear the sound being played very faintly. If I bump the volume to the maximum, that is. The sound is very distorted, like a buzz effect being applied over it. I noticed that if I delete /.config/pulse the distortion goes away, but the sound remains very low. After some time, the buzzing effect comes back. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:19.10.15 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Wed Oct 30 16:03:41 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-29 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: dist-upgrade UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1850702/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
