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

[Karl Schmidt]

On 04/18/2014 12:03 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Please post the output of pactl list sinks, to determine if this
> pulseaudio sees the 2 ports.

  pactl list sinks
Sink #0
         State: SUSPENDED
         Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_05_04.0.analog-stereo
         Description: CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] Analog Stereo
         Driver: module-alsa-card.c
         Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
         Channel Map: front-left,front-right
         Owner Module: 6
         Mute: no
         Volume: 0:  85% 1:  85%
                 0: -4.24 dB 1: -4.24 dB
                 balance 0.00
         Base Volume: 100%
                      0.00 dB
         Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_05_04.0.analog-stereo.monitor
         Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
         Flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
         Properties:
                 alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
                 device.api = "alsa"
                 device.class = "sound"
                 alsa.class = "generic"
                 alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
                 alsa.name = "Multichannel"
                 alsa.id = "Multichannel"
                 alsa.subdevice = "0"
                 alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
                 alsa.device = "0"
                 alsa.card = "0"
                 alsa.card_name = "Xonar DX"
                 alsa.long_card_name = "Asus Virtuoso 100 at 0xd800, irq 16"
                 alsa.driver_name = "snd_virtuoso"
                 device.bus_path = "pci-0000:05:04.0"
                 sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:04.0/sound/card0"
                 device.bus = "pci"
                 device.vendor.id = "13f6"
                 device.vendor.name = "C-Media Electronics Inc"
                 device.product.name = "CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]"
                 device.string = "front:0"
                 device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"
                 device.buffering.fragment_size = "352800"
                 device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
                 device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
                 device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
                 device.description = "CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] Analog Stereo"
                 alsa.mixer_name = "AV200"
                 alsa.components = "CS4398 CS4362A CS5361 AV200"
                 module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                 device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
         Formats:
                 pcm


> 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.

I once had a link for a live Debian thumbdrive - (it really didn't work at the time) - BUT it is an 
excellent way to have people try something on testing on a stable machine - but I'm not finding the 
link for it (hoping it works these days). ( You would think there would be a direct link from the 
debian home page - but it isn't there you have to know to go here:
http://live.debian.net/ )

I should be able to test in a day or two..



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