pulseaudio forgets webcam is chosen preferred input device

[Chris Bainbridge]

I have two USB audio input devices: sound card and webcam

I always want to use the webcam for audio input

In gnome-control-center I go to "Input" tab and under "Choose a device for sound input:" I select "Webcam C270 Analogue Mono"

This works but is temporary. When webcam is unplugged and reconnected the sound card input becomes selected. Worse, when the system is rebooted, the sound card again becomes selected. There appears to be no way to always prefer the webcam audio input.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 1 19:14:55 2012
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.1-0ubuntu0.2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
 indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Hi!

For remembering your USB soundcard (webcam) through unplugging and plugging, that is probably not going to work for Ubuntu 12.04 - the functionality is not there. If you like what ever you plug in to become selected, you can try adding

load-module module-switch-on-connect

to /etc/pulse/default.pa

For rebooting, it should remember the last settings though.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]