[pulseaudio-discuss] Splitting ALSA card ports into seperate Sinks

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 19:55 +0200, S0lll0s wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I am trying to get simultaneous output on the Line Out and Headphones 
> outputs of my Intel HD Audio (AsRock Z97 motherboard) chipset and PC 
> case. With the default pulseaudio configuration in pavucontrol I can 
> choose Analog Stereo Duplex and then select either the "Line Out" or 
> "Headphones" port under "Output Devices", but I would like to have 
> simultaneous output on both (by having a seperate sink for each).
> 
> Here is my alsa-info.sh output, please ignore the NVidia output 
> provided by my GPU as I would like to not use it if possible: 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b7e5097f7a899aa5294b147b23cbb877db3b6f3c
> And this is what "pacmd list-sinks" says about the Built-In audio sink: 
> http://hastebin.com/bonadehimu

It's not possible to have independent line out and headphone output on
your hardware. There is only one analog device on your card.

-- 
Tanu