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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #1070532
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1070532

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Fabrizio Gennari (fabrizio-ge) wrote :

There must have been some problems in communicating the problem, seeing as it's been misunderstood constantly.

Auto mute of the speaker is a nice-to-have feature, but _it is not the problem_.
There's nothing wrong with ALSA: the fact that gst-launch with alsasink works should already have pointed out to that. However, I tested an even more direct way to prove that

aplay -D hw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3 <a WAV file>

sound correctly played from the monitor's speakers

aplay -D hw:CARD=SB,DEV=2 <a WAV file>

sound correctly played from the front green headphone jack (as long as a headphone is connected there)

aplay -D hw:CARD=SB,DEV=0 <a WAV file>

sound correctly played from the rear green headphone jack (as long as a headphone is connected there)

aplay <a WAV file>

sound correctly played from the selected PulseAudio device (using gnome-control-center sound's window to select a device), AS LONG AS THE DEVICE IS NOT ANALOG HEADPHONES. If the selected device is analog headphones, no sound is played at all (needless to say, this happens with headphones plugged)

This is still happening with the recent 13.04