pulseaudio issues.

[n3ond4x]

Whenever I plugin my speakers pulse auto mutes itself and the analog output card. I can manually unmute it but upon unplug/plug it remutes itself. Does anyone here have any experience with this?

Thanks in advance.

[aus9]

until you get a better reply,
it is likely PA config has allowed jack detection

module-jackdbus-detect.so (module-jackdbus-detect)

Not all sound cards have this feature.

Look at your configs, and I suggest you follow the wiki suggestion and use home user configs and comment out that module loading.
The advantage of home configs means you don't need to add any config files to your /opt/.filetool.lst

edit default.pa and comment out the following section

### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect
.fail
.endif

reboot to test and report what happens pls

When you disable jack detection, be aware that you sound levels for external speakers may be too loud for headphones and the reverse,
taking out headphones plugging in speakers may shock the people next doors?

2) You may like to provide some specs of your sound card?

3) And if its not too rude, have you tried just OSS or Alsa?
that is, why do you need PA?

no need to reply to that bit, I am not a big fan of PA

good luck

[n3ond4x]

Thanks aus9,

I actually figured it out and it was alsa doing the dirty work. It was treating the audio out jack as both a headphone and a speaker jack and when plugged in it would mute itself. There is an option in alsamixer for this card that is "Independent HP" and once I turned that on all is perfect. Someone in the PA IRC channel pointed it out to me.

It's an HDA Intel VIA VT1708B 8-Ch.

I need PA because I want to be able to plugin a USB headset and have it switch from speakers to that. Have not tried OSS but I don't believe it's capable of fulfilling these requirements.

I've read from your other posts that you're pretty anti-PA. Why is that? Obviously there is some resource overhead but it's a very useful audio proxy.

[aus9]

Hi

all I said was I was not a big fan, meaning a little fan. I did do the wikis

When I know my tcz checker has checked my last tcz from before the repository went down, and I have finished my others
I may edit the wiki for alsa for you.

Roughly, you create 2 scripts
1 stops sound and removes internal sound module loads usb module
2 ditto but the reverse

can't test tho as I don't own an USB sound mixer

then you don't need so many PA files or "forced" to go onto IRC
 

BTW  nice specs you have with that intel.