# Headphones problem Ubuntu Budgie 18.04

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/headphones-problem-ubuntu-budgie-18-04/4017>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 8, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/headphones-problem-ubuntu-budgie-18-04/4017 "2020-08-08T21:29:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cpagrawal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/cpagrawal/32/1901_2.png) [@cpagrawal](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/cpagrawal)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/headphones-problem-ubuntu-budgie-18-04/4017/1 "2020-08-08T21:29:00Z")

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Hi  
Today suddenly my headphones stopped working. it was surprise because everything was working perfectly. After doing a lot of things with my Laptop, following command worked -  
alsactl restore -P

Now the sound is coming from both Laptop speakers and Headphone, I did some setting to mute my speaker using “alsamixer”, yeah I put my speaker on mute. Auto mute option is enabled already, but seems not to working.

Now on boot the settings are restored and every time I need to set alsamixer to put my speaker on mute.

any clue how to resolve this issue ?

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**Author:** ![jesssullivan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jesssullivan/32/2625_2.png) [@jesssullivan](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jesssullivan)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/headphones-problem-ubuntu-budgie-18-04/4017/2 "2020-08-10T02:06:33Z")

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hmmm  
what laptop hardware?  
I had an issue like this a long while ago ringing a bell, have since totally forgotten what the the resolution for my issue was… 😬…keeping half an eye on this thread

is the pulseaudio daemon happy `command pulseaudio 2>&1 | sed 1q` ?

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**Author:** ![cpagrawal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/cpagrawal/32/1901_2.png) [@cpagrawal](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/cpagrawal)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/headphones-problem-ubuntu-budgie-18-04/4017/3 "2020-08-10T05:24:00Z")

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I have HP pavilion G6