[xubuntu-users] Dell XPS, Realtek audio switched to wrong output device

[Andreas Junius]

Hi all,

I've a problem with audio output. I plugged in external speakers 
recently and suspended the box without unplugging them first. Now the 
internal speakers don't work any more, only the external ones. I did 
start the box using windows and I was able to fix the problem by 
selecting the so called "rear speakers" manually. I restarted the box 
then with xubuntu, but unfortunately it didn't have the desired effect 
there.

Is there any way in xubuntu to select the output device manually?

Cheers,
Andy



Some info about my system:

Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:	14.04
Codename:	trusty




H/W path        Device      Class          Description
======================================================
                             system         Dell System XPS L702X 
(System SKUNumb
/0                          bus            0XN71K
/0/0                        memory         128KiB BIOS
/0/2e                       processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2760QM 
CPU @ 2.4
/0/2e/2f                    memory         64KiB L1 cache
/0/2e/30                    memory         256KiB L2 cache
/0/2e/31                    memory         6MiB L3 cache
/0/32                       memory         6GiB System Memory
/0/32/0                     memory         2GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 
1333 MHz
/0/32/1                     memory         DIMMProject-Id-Version: 
lshwReport-Ms
/0/32/2                     memory         4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 
1333 MHz
/0/32/3                     memory         DIMMProject-Id-Version: 
lshwReport-Ms
/0/100                      bridge         2nd Generation Core Processor 
Family
/0/100/1                    bridge         Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation 
Core Proc
/0/100/1/0                  display        GF106M [GeForce GT 555M]
/0/100/2                    display        2nd Generation Core Processor 
Family
/0/100/16                   communication  6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family M
/0/100/1a                   bus            6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family U
/0/100/1b                   multimedia     6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family H
/0/100/1c                   bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family P
/0/100/1c/0                 multimedia     SAA7231
/0/100/1c.1                 bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family P
/0/100/1c.1/0   wlan0       network        Centrino Advanced-N 6230 
[Rainbow Pea
/0/100/1c.3                 bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family P
/0/100/1c.3/0               bus            uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller
/0/100/1c.4                 bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family P
/0/100/1c.5                 bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family P
/0/100/1c.5/0   eth0        network        RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express 
Gigabit
/0/100/1d                   bus            6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family U
/0/100/1f                   bridge         HM67 Express Chipset Family 
LPC Contr
/0/100/1f.2                 storage        6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family 6
/0/100/1f.3                 bus            6 Series/C200 Series Chipset 
Family S
/0/1            scsi0       storage
/0/1/0.0.0      /dev/sda    disk           750GB ST9750420AS
/0/1/0.0.0/1    /dev/sda1   volume         101MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/1/0.0.0/2    /dev/sda2   volume         19GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.0.0/3    /dev/sda3   volume         362GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.0.0/4    /dev/sda4   volume         316GiB Extended partition
/0/1/0.0.0/4/5  /dev/sda5   volume         10131MiB Linux swap / Solaris 
partiti
/0/1/0.0.0/4/6  /dev/sda6   volume         306GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/2            scsi1       storage
/0/2/0.0.0      /dev/sdb    disk           750GB ST9750420AS
/0/2/0.0.0/1                volume         698GiB SFS partition
/0/3            scsi5       storage
/0/3/0.0.0      /dev/cdrom  disk           DVD+-RW UJ8C1
/1                          power          DELL