Hello and thank you for reading, I am very new to this forum and very new to Kubuntu in general, so this may have been answered before but I still have yet to learn how to navigate the forums.
I am running Kubuntu 18.04 on an Acer Aspire E15. I had my headphones plugged into the jack and snagged the cable on a doorknob and the headphone end broke off in the headphone jack. I very rarely use the headphone jack as I usually use my phone to listen to music, make phone calls, etc. I am trying to figure out how to bypass the headphone jack and just play sound through the internal speakers.
I went to System Settings > Multimedia > Audio and Video > Audio Hardware Setup and set the default device to Speakers ... but when I attempt to set the playback through the internal speakers through the Sound icon on the taskbar it shows Ports: Speakers (unvailable) while the Headphone port remains unavailable and is basically set by default, I'd assume because the system believes I have headphones plugged in because the jack end is broken inside of there.
I believe what I need to do is disable the headphone jack port and that would enable me set the internal speakers port to default and would enable them. But I have no idea how to do that.
Again, I am very new to Kubuntu and have no idea how to edit config files, and so on. Any help would be very much appreciated as I'd like to avoid a costly laptop repair.
Thanks in advance.
I am running Kubuntu 18.04 on an Acer Aspire E15. I had my headphones plugged into the jack and snagged the cable on a doorknob and the headphone end broke off in the headphone jack. I very rarely use the headphone jack as I usually use my phone to listen to music, make phone calls, etc. I am trying to figure out how to bypass the headphone jack and just play sound through the internal speakers.
I went to System Settings > Multimedia > Audio and Video > Audio Hardware Setup and set the default device to Speakers ... but when I attempt to set the playback through the internal speakers through the Sound icon on the taskbar it shows Ports: Speakers (unvailable) while the Headphone port remains unavailable and is basically set by default, I'd assume because the system believes I have headphones plugged in because the jack end is broken inside of there.
I believe what I need to do is disable the headphone jack port and that would enable me set the internal speakers port to default and would enable them. But I have no idea how to do that.
Again, I am very new to Kubuntu and have no idea how to edit config files, and so on. Any help would be very much appreciated as I'd like to avoid a costly laptop repair.
Thanks in advance.
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