No sound, even though devices appear OK

Posted by Felix on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Felix
Published on 2012-04-06T10:20:56Z Indexed on 2012/04/06 11:41 UTC
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I have a weird problem. Sound used to work until a couple of days ago, but now the builtin speakers in my ThinkPad W520 have stopped working. This happened after either:

  1. An update
  2. Using the headphone jack in my laptop dock (I had used the jack in the actual laptop before without issues)

As I was saying, the speakers do not work at all. Sometimes I get a clicking sound from the laptop, which I assume is the system beep. This does not happen consistently. If I plug headphones in the laptop, I do get sound in them.

I have tried playing with all the possible settings both in gnome and using alsamixer. Some screens:

Device is recognized

Output is recognized

alsamixer

What could I try next?

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