On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 22:29 +0200, Daniel wrote: > Hello, > > I have 2 alsa devices in my system, card 0 is my Nvidia graphics card > for HDMI Audio output, card 1 is my internal onboard audio. I prefer > the HDMI Audio via my Nvidia card and setting this as default device > works just fine. > > When I now add another audio device like via USB or Bluetooth, its > sink becomes default, and this is quite what I want, so this is fine. > But when I now disconnect this device again, the new default sink > always is my internal audio instead of the HDMI audio. > > How can I get the system to fall back to my HDMI Audio after the > active sink gets unavailable? Can I set priorities manually in > default.pa or similar? > > The modules module-default-device-restore, module-device-restore, > module-stream-restore and module-card-restore are loaded. If one of > these is supposed to do this job, does that need some manual > configuration? If yes, how? > > I'm running Ubuntu 19.10 64-bit. I already deleted ~.config/pulse and > restarted pulseaudio to make sure there are no unwanted settings in my > pulse db files. The file .config/pulse/[id]-default-sink correctly > contains the HDMI sink in the format of the output below. > > $ pactl info > Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native > Library Protocol Version: 33 > Server Protocol Version: 33 > Is Local: yes > Client Index: 8 > Tile Size: 65472 > User Name: daniel > Host Name: windseeker > Server Name: pulseaudio > Server Version: 13.0 > Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz > Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right > Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo > Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor > Cookie: b87b:c3cd > > $ pactl list sinks short > 1 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo > module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz IDLE > 4 alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo > module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz IDLE If you never use the internal audio, you can switch the card profile to "off" with pavucontrol or pactl. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk https://liberapay.com/tanuk _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
