[pulseaudio-discuss] daemon ping-pongs the sink port

[David Henningsson]

On 12/02/2011 04:54 AM, Tony Bernardin wrote:
> Sorry if I'm posting this question in the wrong list. I've been trying
> to search for this issue, but have been unsuccessful so far with not
> even a hint at what I could try to get to the bottom of this. I'm not
> very familiar with the sound system.
>
> The symptom: regular hiccup in the sound output.
>
> What I've found:
> launching the pulseaudio daemon with -v showed that it is constantly
> changing the port of the sync:

Changing port when you plug something in/out is a part of my jack 
detection patches, and implemented in Ubuntu 11.10.

Is it changing even though you're not actually plugging headphones in 
and out repeatedly? If so, I suspect that your hardware might be broken.

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