Bug#817756: pulseaudio: load-module module-alsa-sink device=plug:dmixer breaks choosing path-file

[Felipe Sateler]

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On 9 March 2016 at 18:50, Jakobus Schürz <wertstoffe at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 8.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I had for a year a config working on my laptop. I have a asound.conf
> which defines a dmixer-device. Pulseaudio uses this dmix-device for
> output (so i can play music from a systemwide-mpd simultanious to watching a
> video as logged in user).
>
> I also have my own configuration on profile-sets and path-files. Because
> plug in and out my headphones mutet the master and my laptop was totally
> mutet and didn't get unmutet.
>
> This all worked until a short time. Since there, plug in or out my
> headphones never changed the mute-state from the headphone- and
> pcm-mixer.

Maybe you need updating the path files?

>
> I found out, when i comment out the line
>
> load-module module-alsa-sink device=plug:dmixer

I'm not even sure this is supported.

>
> in /etc/pulse/default.pa, choosing the path works again.
> But when i comment this line, i can't hear music from mpd, when the
> pulseaudo from the user is playing sound and vice versa.
>
> So now i can choose hearing all the sounds (from user-pulse and
> systemwide mpd) OR plug in and out some headphones, and change soundpath
> to headphones or internal speakers... but not both together.

I suggest make mpd talk to your pulseaudio daemon, and have the daemon
run permanently instead of just on login.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler