> If you change that to >[Element Front] >switch = off >volume = off >>does that fix the problem for you? >Indeed this fixes my problem, thanks! > > Thanks for this. Although I think I'm going to stick with the first solution provided, where would this piece of configuration go? Why do pulseaudio need to change volume=off as switch=off already mute Line Out only need volume=off when the path does not has any mute switch https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/tree/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt You need to change alsa in /etc/modprobe.d/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20151103/e685bafb/attachment.html>