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I have the similar issue with no audio from the 3.5mm connector, internal speakers work fine.# System Details Report

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  • Date generated: 2025-06-02 20:43:52

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Apple Inc. iMac14,2
  • Memory: 16.0 GiB
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4570 × 4
  • Graphics: NVE7
  • Disk Capacity: 1.0 TB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 433.140.2.0.0
  • OS Name: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 46
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.11.0-26-generic
    Any Idea’s ?
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Welcome to Ubuntu Discourse :slight_smile:

Same and similar are often not always the case.

I have moved your topic to its own thread so we can offer the best support.

Thanks.

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I have a similar issue. I have a fresh installation of ubuntu 24.04 and do not get any output from my speaker. Ubuntu only shows “Dummy Output” or HDMI audio devices there is no analog audio output (i.e., internal speakers or 3.5mm headphone jack).

tried the following from a different thread

uname -r
6.11.0-26-generic

lspci -nn | grep -i audio
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:22e9] (rev a1)
80:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7f50] (rev 10)

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Things I’ve tried based on ChatGPT (apologies haven’t really troubleshoot audio issues on ubuntu)

  1. Installed OEM kernel via:
sudo apt install linux-oem-24.04b
  • Booted into kernel 6.11.0-1023-oem
  • No change — analog output still missing
  1. Verified SOF (Sound Open Firmware) logs:
dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|hda|codec'

Shows this:

sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl 0000:80:1f.3: hda codecs found, mask 4
sof_sdw sof_sdw: error -EBUSY: snd_soc_register_card failed -16
  1. Tried fallback kernel boot with snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=1 in GRUB — no success
  2. Checked hdajackretask — only HDMI codecs are listed (NVIDIA + Intel HDMI), no analog codec (e.g., Realtek ALC255)

Unfortunately, nothing has worked so far and I’d appreciate if I can get some help with this.

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You may want to try from CLI:
inxi -Axxz
that shows what you have
or
alsamixer
that can be adjusted
Most of the time it is a matter of finding correct configuration.