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

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Karl,

On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 02:53:10PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> 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)

This may be a bug in pulseaudio or in pavucontrol.

Please post the output of pactl list sinks, to determine if this
pulseaudio sees the 2 ports.

Also, could you try pulseaudio and pavucontrol from testing (it will update a bunch
of stuff unfortunately), to check if this is fixed by newer versions?
Perhaps you can use a live-cd to avoid messing with your system.

Thanks


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler