[pulseaudio-discuss] Since pulseaudio 5 speaker output is on headphones channel, and plugging/unplugging headphones resets settings

[Raymond Yau]

>
> Hello to all on the list,
> I submitted this bug report on the Debian BTS:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808170
> regarding pulseaudio >= 5.x and I was instructed to ask
> the same question here.
>
> The bug report contains all the logs with pulseaudio 4.x
> (the last version that works correctly in my system) and
> pulseaudio 7.x (the version currently in Debian Testing,
> that does not work).
>
> I tried months ago with pulseaudio 5.x and then I pinned
> apt to pulseaudio 4.x. After a dist-upgrade I tried pulseaudio
> 7.x hoping for something better, but I experienced the same
> problem.
>
> For the description of the problem and the verbose log files
> you can click on the DBTS link for the #808170 bug.

#define SND_CTL_TLV_DB_GAIN_MUTE        -9999999

( 4.645| 0.000) [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware volume ranges from
-200050.98 dB to 0.00 dB.

dB range seem to be sum of two -99999.99 and -51 dB(softvol plugin)
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