I'm using Arch's pulseaudio package, which is currently at upstream > commit 09e88de. > > On my laptop I have speakers and headphones. However, pactl also > includes a third port "Analog Output"[0], which (according to > alsamixer) behaves the similarly to the headphones port. > > The problem was that this was being selected as my default port, when > no headphones were plugged in. If I plugged in my headphones, I'd get > the headphones port, and unplugging them would get me the speakers > port (i.e., after plugging in my headphones ones everything is as it > should be). > > I guess the behavior I would expect would be that there should be no > "Analog Output" port at all on my system. > > Is this a known issue, or have I made a mistake in my configuration? > Any further information I could provide? > > post the output of alsa-info.sh do your laptop have line out jack or line out jack at dock station ? Some notebook have headphone, line out , mic and line in jack which can used to support 5.1 or 7.1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140127/bba295e3/attachment.html>