headphones and speakers at the same time

Type dmesg on a terminal and see if there is anything related to sound. If you have already upgraded Ubuntu I would suggest to see what the command dmesg outputs. When you connect the headphones, the sound comes out of both (Speakers and Headphones) because it thinks they are the same. The only option your computer shows is 'Speakers' which are the internal ones. Now for your case, it seems your headphones are not getting detected correctly. What you will be doing here is looking for the one that mutes your speakers but leaves your headphones still with sound. Pressing up or down you can adjust the volume for that specific connection or pressing M you can mute the connection. Inside the alsa mixer app, using your arrow keys, move left or right to any of the options that will show in your mixer window. In the terminal type alsamixer and press Enter Type in dash terminal or ter for short and press Enter You select the device you want to mute and click on the mute button.įor cases where this options do not show or sound is still coming from the speakers when you have your headphones connected then follow this steps: Notice that I have both, the Speakers connection (Analog Output) and the Headphones: Here is another image of how 12.10 looks. This way sound will not come out of that output connection. If in one case I would like to disable sound for the speaker, I would first select the output I want to disable and then disable the option (Marked by the green circle). In my case I have support for my headphones and my stereo output. If you see something like one the following images, then you know both were detected: I would first check to see if Ubuntu is detecting both (Headphones and Speakers) in the system settings:

Headphones and speakers at the same time