Laptop speaker dying?

Hi there,

I run openSUSE 13.1 on a 4 year old Acer laptop.

Well, pulseaudio just runs fine. When I play back a video, pavucontrol perfectly shows the level meter output.

But, the audio from the laptop speaker is very, very low, almost not hearable.

When I connect my Onkyo stereo to the 3,5 mm headset jack I get the full, loud sound I expect.

This means, this is probably not a software issue, pulseaudio just runs fine.

I am now curious, is this known that laptop speakers tend to die after some years?

I only want to connect the stereo when I want full sound.

Usually the laptop speakers are just enough for every day use.

But now I always have to connect the stereo to get any sound to hear…

What do you think? Dying speakers?

I shutdown the machine, did not help. I thought maybe the internal speakers needed to restart. Did not help.

What do you think?

Besides that, the laptop just runs perfect.

If laptop speaker is dying, you can use external speaker in your laptop.
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I now found my mistake, no hardware issue at all.

I loaded the sound module with this option options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire-7730g This has always worked, but suddenly I could not chose “speakers” as output in pulseaudio. I simply removed to option and it works now, can now select speakers again in pavucontrol!