Silent builtin speakers until headphone jack in-out, HP ProBook 460

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Hello all,

Using Fedora 43 and GNOME 49 under Wayland on a HP ProBook 460 G11.

The builtin speakers produce no sound - until I plug in and remove a jack-connector from the headphones-jack.

When I open GNOME’s sound settings, the output device is set to Speaker - Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller. A click on the Test button shows the “Test Speakers” dialog. Both speaker-buttons produce no sound, when clicked.

It is only after plugging in and removing some/a jack cable in the headphones connector, that I hear “Front left” and “Front right” when clicking on the test button. After some time, the speakers are silent again and I have to repeat the procedure.

How can this behavior be explained? What should I do to debug any further? How can this be fixed?

Thanks and kind regards,
FWieP

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Hello again,

The issue persists. It seems that sounds are ‘collected’ up until the headphones are plugged in.

For example: YouTube will not play a video until I plug in the headphones. As soon as I stop the video, after a few seconds, I cannot resume until I plug out-and-in the headphones again.

System sounds are not output, too. Until I plug in the headphones.

VisualStudioCode’s build sounds, too.

How can this be? Please advise… I’m at a loss how to fix this.
FWieP

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I think the issue is related to Pipewire.

Following this link, then the Arch wiki, I created a config file and restarted the Pipewire service.

Promptly, Youtube resumed the stalled playback.

I will keep investigating.