Bug#801428: pulseaudio: on stock workstation with normal left/right speakers, bass is stripped, unless using headphones jack

[Stephen Dowdy]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:

> I don't understand. Do you mean that if you plug into headphone jack
> you do not have this problem? And that the problem only reveals itself
> after plugging the speakers into the line-out jack and selecting Line
> Out / Speakers / Analog Output port[1]?
>
> [1] This being worse because one of these is selected by default?
>

​Felipe,​

​I have not tried headphones themselves, but if i plug the external
speakers into the headphone jack on the workstation, the problem
disappears.  Also, if i select the headphone "port" in software
(pavucontrol) while the external speakers are still plugged into the
line-out jack (either front or back jack of my system, a Dell Precision
Workstation, the problem goes away, as well.

If i move the external speakers from the headphone jack back to the
line-out jack, the automatic jack selection code reverts to the "No Bass"
situation.  (but, again, i can manually "fix" it, by selecting the
headphone port in pavucontrol.  I'd *expect* that to route the sound
through the headphone jack, and i should hear *nothing* at that point, but
that's not the case).

thanks,
--stephen​



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