18.04 Headphones detected, but not switched on automatically after startup

[tom]

Been this way since at least 15.

Plug in your headphones, boot up your laptop. No sound. Speakers and headphones are disabled. Super annoying, you have to unplug and re-plug, and go through the stupid dialogue of "what are you trying to plug in?" which has no memory, and no defaults.

Please, please, please, fix this Ubuntu team!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: tom 1369 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jun 6 02:28:13 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-26 (41 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180228)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/28/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.9.1
dmi.board.name: 0JHP5H
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.9.1:bd03/28/2018:svnDellInc.:pnXPS159560:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0JHP5H:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 15 9560
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.pulseaudio.desktop: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.pulseaudio.desktop: 2018-05-26T14:25:02.708160

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I can't find any existing reports of this problem. Please report it to the PulseAudio developers here:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PulseAudio

and then send us a link to the new bug.

[tom (tombuntus)]

I'm not even sure it's pulseaudio, just picked a word I knew ubuntu sound is related to. could be alsa, pulseaudio, or neither. I really don't know.

[tom (tombuntus)]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106834

but this feels wrong.

[tom (tombuntus)]

Definitely been lots of existing reports of this problem. For example,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1583801

also at least 3 of the same problem on AskUbuntu.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Good find.

Let's use bug 1583801 and your upstream bug will be linked to that. It's still required.