No sound from a set of powered audio speakers?

[One Brain Cell]

I'm just setting up a Rasperry Pi 2 for my 73 year old Dad (replacing an old WinXP machine). Everything is working fine except I have no audio. Here's the setup:

- Raspberry Pi 2 running Noobs Raspbian.
- Official Raspberry Pi charger.
- HDMI to VGA adapter (to connect up the old WinXP monitor, it works fine).
- JBL external speakers, powered by their own power source & connected via the standard audio out port on the Pi.

I'm getting no sound at all, have looked in the Preferences\Audio device settings but the only option I have is:

- Soudcard BC2835 ALSA (default)

Any ideas? I know the JBL speakers are working fine because I tried them just previously on the WinXP machine.

Many thanks for your help

[drgeoff]

Run raspi-config again and look for the menu item that selects between audio on HDMI or 3.5 mm socket.

[One Brain Cell]

Hi drgeoff,

Many thanks for your reply, and I'm really sorry to sound foolish but how do I access raspi-config again?

The truth is I've only used the Pi once back at the beginning of August; and its only now I've been able to get to my Dad's place and set it up. I've forgotten what I did to install programs (e.g. the Terminal to install Audacity), and of course the config.

I need to install kweb too so he can access car maintenance videos on Youtube!

[texy]

..from the command line enter

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sudo  raspi-config 

Texy