Unavailable port selected by default

[David Henningsson]

In case one card has only unavailable ports, it might be still be selected as default, even though there are available ports on other cards.

E g, on a HTPC which have only Headphone and HDMI outputs, and these two outputs are on separate cards, the headphone port might be selected even if the HDMI port is available and the headphone port is not.

Probably PulseAudio's routing system needs to be rewritten to be more port based to fix this issue.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Upstreamed now, needs these patches:

module-switch-on-port-available: Route to preferred profile
module-switch-on-port-available: Use input and output names
card-restore: Save and restore "preferred profile" of port
card: Update preferred_profile for ports when profile changes
device-port: Add preferred_profile field to pa_device_port
alsa-mixer: Fill in input and output names
card: Add variables for splitting up a profile

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Actually; that patch set does solve some issues, but not necessarily this one.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Does this happen in Xenial?

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Marking as Invalid for Xenial

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Does this problem persist in any current version of Ubuntu?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Closed due to no response.