Do you know where pcm earphone is on the machine? If that's already got equipment attached setting the volume to maximum on that equipment may get you some sound. If you have another speaker set it may be time to switch out and try it with the other speaker set. This is why it can pay to have a few more speaker sets say 2 with 3.5mm plugs and 2 with usb plugs so you can find if one of the speaker sets is going south. Another possibility would be to use vlc if already on the machine and try something like vlc --volume 3000 /usr/share/sounds/purple/Login.wav. This would only be to test if you can hear anything from the speaker set. That command may not be completely accurate either I haven't made or had coffee today yet. I'm not familiar enough with electronic equipment if there was a way to plug something into a jack and test voltage going through with normal sound playing you'd find either the software was lying or how much more voltage was actually needed in that jack for reasonable sound to play. Another thing to buy is a usb sound card that can be plugged into a usb port and attach either a head set or speaker set to it and see if you can get sound working on that usb card. Sometimes these computers go defective and the defect hits the sound system directly.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > You wouldn't get the feedback since it's over ssh. > >
