[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 52281] New: Keeping headphone volume to 100% results in clipping speaker sound

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52281

             Bug #: 52281
           Summary: Keeping headphone volume to 100% results in clipping
                    speaker sound
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: PulseAudio
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: alsa
        AssignedTo: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: mstaz at gmx.de
         QAContact: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
                CC: lennart at poettering.net


Pulseaudio keeps my headphone volume to 100% (no headphones are plugged in,
just speakers are used). When master volume is raised the speaker sound starts
to clip/distort. I found out that this doesn't happen if headphone output is
muted or set to a low volume.
I don't know if this behavior of pulseaudio is correct or it is caused by the
ALSA driver (snd-hda-intel).

As a workaround I changed the "[Element Headphone]" section in
/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf to:
switch = off
volume = off

I don't use headphones, so I don't care if they are not working anymore.

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