On Fri, 2017-08-04 at 14:50 +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > 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? Not known to me at least. > Why are switch and volume set to "off" in the original > analog-output-speaker.conf? The headphone output is turned off, because playing simultaneously to the speakers and the headphones is a bad idea. > Is there a better/simpler fix? If headphone output needs to be enabled when using the internal speakers, then that's a bug in the kernel driver. Please report this to the alsa developers. http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking > Are there sideeffects. > > Could this be achieved without root access and without changes to /usr/share/? Pulseaudio's alsa mixer configuration can't currently be modified elsewhere, unfortunately. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
