On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 22:41 +0100, Samuele Carcagno wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem on a fresh install of Debian Jessie with KDE. On Debian > Wheezy and Ubuntu Trusty I could change the output device for each > application through pavucontrol, and upon reboot the application would > "remember" that device and use it again. On Jessie instead I have to > change the output device from the default internal soundcard to my > external soundcard each time the computer is rebooted. I'd guess that the different routing system used in KDE causes this, except that... > I tried to follow this guide > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/DefaultDevice/ > > to change the default output device, so I added the following line to > /etc/pulse/default.pa > > set-default-sink > alsa_output.usb-E-MU_Systems__Inc._E-MU_0404___USB_E-MU-0E-3F04-07D80A14-027A8-STATION_01-00-USB.analog-stereo > > and after I did that I also temporarily disabled pulseaudio by > > sudo mv /usr/bin/pulseaudio /usr/bin/pulsefoo > > so that it wouldn't respawn and terminating it with ksysguard. When > disabled I deleted the the ~/.config/pulse directory, re-enabled > pulseaudio and rebooted. Unfortunately applications would still output > to the internal soundcard by default. I'm pretty sure that I specified > the name of the external soundcard correctly because if I use that name > with paswitch > https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2012/06/switching_pulseaudio_output_device/ > it works (unfortunately the changes with paswitch are again only temporary). > > Not sure if this is somehow related to the above issue, but the settings > I choose the for Phonon in the KDE multimedia settings don't stick > either. I select the external soundcard as the default device and upon > reboot the internal one is on top on the preferences list. ...except that it seems that the KDE-specific routing system isn't working either. It sounds like things just don't get saved on disk. Is this "KDE multimedia settings" the same as KMix? KMix should have a list of "media roles", such as video, music, game, event etc. Each role should have a list of audio devices, which you can prioritize by reordering the list. Assuming that you have a similar settings in this "KDE multimedia settings" thing, does the device-manager database timestamp in ~/.config/pulse get updated after you change the device priorities? (Wait 10 seconds before checking; the device-manager database gets written to disk after a 10 second delay.) If the timestamp doesn't get updated, then module-device-manager doesn't write anything to the disk. In that case, check if module-device-manager is even loaded with "pactl list modules". -- Tanu
