15th December 2016, 18:11
I'm having an issue with getting sound through my headphones. I've always had this issue with Maui, but I didn't bother fixing it because I didn't use headphones much prior to now. I have a Dell XPS 15 9550 if that matters. The issue is that I sometimes won't get sound from my headphones. I've tried several pair, so it's not the headphones themselves. Unplugging the headphones and plugging them back in doesn't help. Whatever's happening starts at boot and is only resolved by doing multiple reboots. I'd say rebooting fixes the problem 1 in 20 times, so it's rare that my sound works. The funny thing is that the speakers work fine, but I have to manually select the speaker as output since jack detection is also not working. Reboots don't seem to fix the jack detection, though. When the issue is occurring the proper audio device is selected and nothing is muted in alsamixer. I also tried moving my pulseaudio config files to no avail. Any suggestions for how to fix this annoying issue would be much appreciated!