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

[Felipe Sateler]

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Hi

On 16 December 2015 at 15:25, Mark Caglienzi <mark.caglienzi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Does moving streams around with pavucontrol fix anything at this point?

> * 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.


Could you attach a verbose log[1] while showing the problem? Also,
please attach the files generated by the pulseaudio bug script (why
weren't they attached?).


[1] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler