switching between speakers and headphone doesn't work with Aus Xonar

[obi-nine]

Switching between speakers and headphones (1 or 2) doesn't work when using the Unity sound control. It does work fine using alsamixer from within terminal. Furthermore when using the Unity volume control to change the volume it DOES show a change in alsamixer.

So... Unity <-> alsamixer volume control works. Unity <-> alsamixer speaker/headphone switch does not work.

Sound card is an Asus Xonar.

[kaeru (kaeru)]

I can confirm this. The functionality was working in 11.04.

The alsa mixer controls are as below:

Simple mixer control 'Analog Output',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Speakers' 'Headphones' 'FP Headphones'
  Item0: 'Speakers'

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

have the save error. See bug #860251

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

wrong link: bug#873558

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

please, update the pulse audio to the version 1.1. With this version switching work fine

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

hmm. It looks like the error is more complicated. I have reinstalled Ubuntu 11.10 and the installed Pulseaudio 1.1 from the source with

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make -j2
sudo make install

Then remove files from ~/.pulse/, as I make it last time, but it doesn't work more. No switching.

I have also tried to install packages from Precise (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:1.1-0ubuntu1/+build/2881253), but it also don't work.

Then i started the server in the debug mode (pulseaudio --log-level=debug) and try to change the output port. Nothing was printed after the changing. On my current Ubuntu 11.04 i get a text like this:

I: sink.c: Changed port of sink 0 "alsa_output.pci-0000_04_02.0.analog-stereo" to output-speaker
I: module-device-restore.c: Storing volume/mute/port for device sink:alsa_output.pci-0000_04_02.0.analog-stereo.

So, it seems to be an error in module-alsa-sink.so.

What else can I do to get more information about the problem?

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

Here is a complete log of the pulseaudio server (original from 11.10) from starting, opening indicator-sound and changing the output sinc. Eventually that can help.

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

The bug is in PulseAudio, not in pavucontrol, because no one pulse sound applet can switch the sink port. The pacmd command set-sink-port doesn't work too.

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

I had one more time compile the pulse-audio from source version 1.1. The switching woks with pacmd command set-sink-port, but any other pulseaudio client don't work with new version of pulseaudio (connecting to server refused or something like that), pehaps is not ABI compatible.

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

So, I had found solution:

1) disable autospawn: /etc/pulse/client.conf -> autospawn = no
2) kill pulse: pulseaudio --kill
3) download the last sourse of pulseaudio and extract it
4) cd pulseaudio-1.1
5) ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var
6) make
7) sudo make install
8) pulseaudio -D

[Pavel Fischer (rubbiroid)]

It was fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 (i have used the dayli build at 25.02.2012)

[knowlittle (munkmother)]

My 12.04 had same problem. I fixed it with part of Pavel Fisher's solution above. Here is what I did:

1) disable autospawn: /etc/pulse/client.conf -> autospawn = no
2) kill pulse: pulseaudio --kill
3) go to Ubuntu Software Centre. Remove pulseaudio then install it.