Bug#808170: pulseaudio: Since pulseadio 5 speaker output is on headphones channel And randomly resets settings.

[Mark Caglienzi]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 7.1-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer(s),
I have an HP Pavilion DV6-7009el with this soundcard:

IDT 92HD91BXX

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1818
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
        Memory at d4610000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

I am forced to continue to use Pulseaudio 4, because newer versions (also the 7
one) have this problem (which I found a nearly working (but annoying) workaround to):

* At boot, no audio
* I have to restart pulseaudio and launch alsamixer, choose the soundcard, max
out the headphone volume and unmute it (It is always muted and at 0%)

and NOW I have audio coming out my main laptop speakers (yes, it seems that
from Pulseaudio 5 the mixer level for main speakers is the headphone one).

Now if I plug headphones then the audio comes out only in the headphones and
not from the main speakers (good), but when I unplug them -> settings reset
(which seems to be good
because if I unplug my headphones I want their channel to mute, *but* this bug
gives me no audio on speakers, afterwards).

And sometimes when an application uses audio, the settings revert to mute and
0% headphone channel level -> no audio (so I have to re-do the drill)
For example VLC does not do this, pidgin sometimes does it and sometimes
freezes itself. QBittorrent playing audio through mpg123 triggers the settings
reset once again.


Kind regards,
Mark



-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-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
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  libasound2                    1.0.29-1
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.29-1
ii  libc6                         2.19-22
ii  libcap2                       1:2.24-12
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.10.4-1
ii  libfftw3-single3              3.3.4-2
ii  libgcc1                       1:5.2.1-23
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.11
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.24-1
ii  libpulse0                     7.1-2
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-10
ii  libsoxr0                      0.1.2-1
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                    5.2.1-23
ii  libsystemd0                   228-2
ii  libtdb1                       1.3.8-1
ii  libudev1                      228-2
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-3
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.6.3-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcb1                       1.10-3+b1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  lsb-base                      9.20150917
ii  pulseaudio-utils              7.1-2
ii  udev                          228-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11  7.1-2
ii  rtkit                  0.11-4

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman        <none>
pn  paprefs      <none>
ii  pavucontrol  3.0-3+b2
pn  pavumeter    <none>

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