Hi Raymond, On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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 The info is here: <http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=580b074199505f8123f5a813bf6d26419f3d0b3c>. > 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 Nope. I don't have a docking station (nor does my laptop support a docking station, it as a MacBook Air), and there is only one jack, the headphone jack, nothing else. Cheers, Tom