Dear PulseAudio developers, after updating my Asus eee netbook from Debian 8 to Debian 9, the internal speaker fell silent. System: Debian, pulseaudio 10.0 Audio Device: Intel NM10/ICH7 Diagnosis: headphones work speaker: no sound despite signal shown in pavucontrol Note: Before the update, pavucontrol showed 3 outputs: audio, speaker, and headphone. "audio" worked. After the update, the "audio" port is missing on the list. Workaround: with help from https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=155501 https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Backends/ALSA/Profiles/ --- /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf 2017-06-18 18:03:31.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker-eeepc.conf 2017-08-04 10:57:45.035014838 +0200 @@ -84,13 +92,18 @@ ; This profile path is intended to control the speaker, let's mute headphones ; else there will be a spike when plugging in headphones +; change by GM: "mute" instead of turning "off", don' set volume to zero [Element Headphone] -switch = off -volume = off +;switch = off +;volume = off +switch = mute +;volume = zero [Element Headphone2] -switch = off -volume = off +;switch = off +;volume = off +switch = mute +;volume = zero [Element Headphone+LO] switch = off I currently use a modified /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/default.conf as a new udev rule would require to rebuild initramfs. Some questions: Is this a known problem? Why are switch and volume set to "off" in the original analog-output-speaker.conf? Is there a better/simpler fix? Are there sideeffects. Could this be achieved without root access and without changes to /usr/share/? Thanks, Günter
