Bug#718726: pulseaudio: Front panel/rear switches available in ALSA not exposed via pavucontrol

[Karl Schmidt]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-6.1
Severity: normal


As of wheezy - one can switch both the audio out and microphone inputs between the back connectors and front panel connectors using alsamixer.
These ALSA functions should be automatically exposed by pulseaudio

This occurs with a CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] card, but google searches suggest that other cards have the same issue.

As wheezy will be stable for a couple of years, this bug report might help others find the alsamixer work around.
(At this writing, there isn't a backport for the newer pulseaudio)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.25-4
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.25-2
ii  libc6                         2.13-38
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libfftw3-3                    3.3.2-3.1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.7.2-5
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0                     2.0-6.1
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6                    4.7.2-5
ii  libsystemd-daemon0            44-11
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-11
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-7.2
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxcb1                       1.8.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1+deb7u1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  udev                          175-7.2

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     2.0-6.1
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             0.9.4-1
ii  paprefs           0.9.10-1
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
ii  pavumeter         0.9.3-4
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-6.1

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