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

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Karl Schmidt <karl at xtronics.com> wrote:
> 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

This is strange. Pulseaudio doesn't seem to be seeing any ports on your card.

>
>
>
>> 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..

Please let me know when you do. If the problem still exists we may
have to forward this upstream.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler