[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 93946] Changing device profile to HDMI is reset to default after short delay

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93946

--- Comment #18 from Mike C <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to David Henningsson from comment #16)
> (In reply to Mike C from comment #14)
> > Just adding a brief comment to the valuable previous comment #13 that Tanu
> > made, in my case the "only" available speakers on my system are within the
> > monitor, so falling back to analog means that gives no sound at all until
> > the profile is switched back to HDMI. So current behaviour certainly breaks
> > my sound support, and means that every single time I want to have sound
> > after not using the machine for a matter of ten minutes or so I then have to
> > go into the settings and switch profile again. That is not user friendly. 
> 
> It's not user friendly to have broken internal speakers (you should talk to
> your computer manufacturer about that ;-) ). Then your computer tricks PA to
> think that they are in fact working, and as a result PA makes bad decisions.
> 
> If PA 8.0 makes worse decisions for the corner case of "broken internal
> speakers", but at the same time makes better decisions for many other
> people, then I would prefer not to revert my patch.
> 

The comment that I have "broken internal speakers" does not represent the
physical situation at all. My computer is a small mini-itx motherboard with one
of the Ivybridge series of processors, in a fanless enclosure, and does not
have any internal speakers. So the speakers are not broken at all - they don't
exist.  The video and audio goes out from the motherboard through HDMI to a
monitor that has its own speakers that work perfectly through the HDMI
connector. Therefore it would not seem unreasonable that having the sound set
in my configs to go through HDMI to the monitor is the permanent setup
irrespective of whether the monitor goes into powersaving mode when not used
for some period. Moving the mouse to get the monitor screen lit up again after
the system has been left idle is normal operation and I suspect not a corner
case!

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