Bug#719009: pulseaudio: resets chosen profile on reboot (or incorrect profile priorities)

[Sebastián Cruz]

Hi Felipe,

thanks for your reply and sorry for the late reply.


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 03:01:32PM -0300, CruX wrote:
> > Package: pulseaudio
> > Version: 4.0-6
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > After upgrading to PulseAudio 4 on Jessie I have to select the correct
> card profile after each reboot.
> > Every time it goes back to "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output", while I
> select "Analog Stereo Duplex".
> > It doesn't matter if I change that option through GNOME's "Sound
> Settings", through "pavucontrol"
> >or doing "pacmd set-card-profile 0
> output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo" from the CLI.
> >
> > Further investigation seems to point to the priorities each profile gets
> when my HDMI external monitor is plugged in. See the two files I'm
> attaching with the output of "pacmd list-cards" when booting with and
> without it. I'm on a laptop and most of the time I'm using the external LCD
> monitor which doesn't have speakers or any audio related functionality FWIW.
> >
> > I understand the autodetecting and rearranging of profile priorities,
> but I think the user choice should be preserved across reboots. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong and this is somehow a feature not a bug.
>
> You can force a setting in pulseaudio by specifying it in the default.pa
> file. Just append
>
> set-card-profile 0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
>
> to the file
>

Adding this line to the ~/.config/pulse/default.pa file did the trick and
after a reboot the setting is preserved. Thanks!


> >
> > One other related effect of this is that I get no sound on KDE apps,
> regardless of the pulse profile change. After editing the Phonon sound
> preferences through "systemsettings" and choosing the right profile I can
> test speakers and I get sound, but as soon as I close and reopen the
> settings they're back to "HDMI output". So for KDE apps I cannot persist
> the option, even in the same session.Disclaimer: I don't have the full KDE
> desktop installed, only Amarok dependencies. Should I file this as a bug
> for another package?
>
> This looks like a bug somewhere in the kde stack. But first lets see if
> the above fixes anything.
>

At some point in the past this stopped happening. I'm using jessie and
upgrading almost daily, so something got fixed in between. I guess you can
disregard it.

Thanks again,

-- 
Sebastián Cruz
default50 at gmail.com
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