Sound not working on in-built speakers, but does on earphones

juliokirk

Recently installed Solus (latest version) on an older laptop. Today I noticed there's no audio output from the speakers, although everything looks normal on settings.

The result of cat /proc/asound/cards is:

0 [MID            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
                      HDA Intel MID at 0xf0900000 irq 30

Also, inxi -A returns:

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.1-187.current running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes

Finally, a few minutes ago I found out that sound is normal through earphones. Just worked immediately, but I have no idea what that means.

Any help would be appreciated.

murbert

It sounds like it might be hardware. Did the speakers work with another OS?

juliokirk

murbert It does. I booted using a bunsenlabs live usb, sound works out of the box on speakers. I used that distro before installing Solus a couple of days ago.

juliokirk

UPDATE:

Couldn't find a solution, until I stumbled upon this reddit post from a year ago, about someone with the same problem.

Turns out that, for some unkown reason, closing the notebook lid and opening it again makes the onboard speakers work, at least in the current session.