Well, after restart the active profile is my surround one:    Active Profile: output:analog-surround-71+input:analog-stereo But the connected surround device (actually a 5.1+2.0 sink-remap, with two sound systems attached) doesn't output any sound, and the headphones aren't even listed in KDE's plasma-pa widget, nor in pavucontrol Should I be reporting this as a bug somewhere? ---------------------------------------- > Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Front audio panel "forgets" state after reboot, no sound until replug > From: tanuk at iki.fi > To: chrno-sphered at hotmail.com; pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 11:42:50 +0200 > > On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 13:47 +0100, � �穹 wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm using pulseaudio 8.0 on arch linux x64 with the KDE desktop. I >> have my speakers connected to the rear panel of my ALC889 soundcard >> and the headphones are connected to the front panel. >> When I connect the headphones, the sound gets redirected to the front >> panel as expected. However, if I let them plugged in and restart, >> then there is neither any sound from the rear panel, nor the front >> panel. >> >> To get the sound working again, I have to unplug the headphones. Any >> Idea what might be causing this, and is there a way to make it >> remember I have my headphones plugged into the front panel? >> Please tell me if you need more info. > > This happens for me too if the last profile I manually selected on the > sound card was a surround profile (however, I get sound from the > speakers unlike you, but the kernel driver might auto-mute the speaker > output in your case). The code that is responsible for automatically > switching between headphones and speakers doesn't work correctly during > startup if the selected profile is not the analog stereo profile. > > So, what profile is initially active when this happens? If it's not the > stereo profile, then it's probably the same issue that I observe here. > You can check the profile with command > > LANG=C pactl list cards | grep "Active Profile" > > -- > Tanu
