On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 13:41 +0200, Mark Gaiser wrote: > 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? I don't think there's any simple test. You could add logging to the sink_put_hook_callback() function in module-switch-on-connect.c for every case where the function decides to return without moving streams, and then see from the log why the moving is not happening. -- Tanu
