On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 21:16 +0200, Mark Gaiser wrote: >> Hi PulseAudio list, >> >> Note: please keep me in CC, i'm not registered on this list. >> >> I've been having this issue for as long as i use Linux (with >> pulseaudio) but never really bothered to look into the issue and try >> to resolve it. That's something i've been trying to tackle for a few >> days now without any notable success. >> >> First to clear make my use case clear. >> - I have a USB headset (but the same is true for jack). >> - On windows and mac, whenever i plug in a headset (usb or jack) all >> audio is redirected to that device. >> >> My linux setup: >> - Archlinux x64 (fully up to date) >> - KDE 4.xx >> >> What i want to accomplish is to have the same hassle free use case on >> linux as it works on windows and mac. My (fairly default) default.pa >> can be found here [1]. The only things i added (as far as i can >> remember) is: >> # automatically switch to newly-connected devices >> load-module module-switch-on-connect >> >> Which i did because it "looked" like the thing i needed based on one >> of the comments in [2]. It doesn't seem to do anything for me though. >> >> So how do i let PulseAudio redirect all audio output to (the last) >> audio device that i connected to it? Just like it works on Windows and >> Mac? I mean, i can change output sinks in pavucontrol, but that is >> hardly a sane way to do every time. There must be "some" easy way out >> there to do this, right? >> >> Also, it would be very nice of the audio switched sink while audio is playing. >> >> I prefer doing this using just default pulseaudio and linux commands. >> I know of the "paswitch" git project somewhere that allows me to >> switch output devices, but i don't believe that's the right way to do >> something like this. >> >> I hope this list could share the appropriate way in getting this done. >> >> For reference, i tried the same use case in Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Magaia >> (plug in a headset, play music and listen where the sound comes from). >> In all cases no sound was coming out of my headset. All sound came out >> of the speakers (that are connected via a jack plug). > > I don't know why it's not working for you, but here's some information > that may help with figuring it out. > > The first thing to note is that USB headsets and headphones that are > plugged into an audio jack are handled differently. > > The policy of moving streams to a newly plugged-in USB headset is > handled by module-switch-on-connect. That module changes the default > sink to a newly plugged-in sound card, and moves streams if and only if > the following conditions are fulfilled: the stream is currently playing > to the sink that was the old default sink, and you have not previously > explicitly moved the stream. > > The policy of switching to the headphones when you plug them to an audio > jack is handled by module-switch-on-port-available. That module never > moves streams. Instead, it just switches the port on the sink that has > the headphone port. I don't know the details of your setup, but if the > jack to which you have connected the speakers is part of a different > sink than the one that handles the headphone jack, then audio won't > automatically move to the headphones. > > The above is a description how things are, not necessarily of they > should be. > > -- > Tanu > Hi Tanu, Thank you very much for your reply. For the moment, lets focus on the case where a USB headset is plugged in. In my current case (with live cd's/dvd's and a natively installed archlinux) where the case is: (for clarity): - Play some music using some pulseaudio enabled player - Sound comes out of the speakers (jack connection) - Plug in a USB headset - Sound is still being send to the connected speakers (jack) and not the newly attached headphone (usb) This is repeatable for me on a multitude of distributions, even with completely different hardware (same usb headset every time). Therefore i doubt a fault in my configurations since i would expect distributions like magaia, ubuntu and kubuntu to have this sorted out of the box. Anyway, for reference, my settings again: http://pastebin.com/NL7hbvS6 Is there any test i can run to debug this issue and figure out where things go wrong? Cheers, Mark
