Internal Speakers Not Working on Ubuntu 22.04 (Dual Boot, Windows sound OK)

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installed in a dual-boot setup:

Problem Description:
The Problem: My laptop’s internal speakers produce no sound whatsoever in Ubuntu. All volume controls appear correct, and selecting the built-in output device doesn’t help.

Context:

  1. Headphones plugged into the 3.5mm jack DO work perfectly fine in Ubuntu.
  2. All sound, including the internal speakers, works perfectly when I boot into Windows on the same machine.

What I’ve Tried:

  • Installed pavucontrol and tried switching the sound card profile.
  • Ran sudo alsa force-reload.
  • I identified the following audio codecs on my system:
    cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec
    Codec: Nvidia GPU a5 HDMI/DP
    Codec: Realtek ALC285
    Codec: Intel Raptorlake HDMI

Has anyone successfully resolved a “speakers only” issue on Ubuntu 22.04? Any guidance on how to fix this, would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

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Presuming you haven’t changed desktop and are still using Gnome, check under settings, sound, output device.
If its set to Nvidia, then sound is routed via the HDMI cable.
You need to look for something like Realtek ALC285 that should send sound to your speakers.

In addition, if you run alsamixer from the terminal, check the sound card in use with F6, and then make sure controls for that card are not muted, if in doubt press m

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The output device is Built-in Audio, and nothing is muted.
I have three options in my sound card using F6 in alsamixer, default, HDA Nvidia, and HDA Intel PCH — none of which work.
Below is the ALSA information and device listing generated via:

alsa-info --upload

alsa_report

ALSA Detected Soundcards

Soundcards recognised by ALSA
-----------------------------

 0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0x87080000 irq 17
 1 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0x645f230000 irq 222


PCI Soundcards installed in the system
--------------------------------------

0000:00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7a50] (rev 11) (prog-if 80)
	DeviceName: Onboard - Sound
0000:01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:22bc] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:34f8]

Playback Devices

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: Generic Digital [Generic Digital]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC285 Analog [ALC285 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

PulseAudio / PipeWire Sinks

pactl list short sinks

122	alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.pro-output-3	PipeWire	s32le 2ch 48000Hz	IDLE
531	alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo	PipeWire	s32le 2ch 48000Hz	IDLE
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Are you dual-booting? If so, make sure to disable the Windows’ Fast Startup feature and shutdown completely.

Then boot Ubuntu and try again.