[pulseaudio-discuss] Front audio panel "forgets" state after reboot, no sound until replug

[紅 蒼穹]

Well, after restart the active profile is my surround one:
     Active Profile: output:analog-surround-71+input:analog-stereo

But the connected surround device (actually a 5.1+2.0 sink-remap, with two sound systems attached) 
doesn't output any sound, and the headphones aren't even listed in KDE's plasma-pa widget, nor in pavucontrol

Should I be reporting this as a bug somewhere?

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> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Front audio panel "forgets" state after reboot, no sound until replug
> From: tanuk at iki.fi
> To: chrno-sphered at hotmail.com; pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 11:42:50 +0200
>
> On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 13:47 +0100, 紅 蒼穹 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using pulseaudio 8.0 on arch linux x64 with the KDE desktop. I
>> have my speakers connected to the rear panel of my ALC889 soundcard
>> and the headphones are connected to the front panel.
>> When I connect the headphones, the sound gets redirected to the front
>> panel as expected. However, if I let them plugged in and restart,
>> then there is neither any sound from the rear panel, nor the front
>> panel.
>>
>> To get the sound working again, I have to unplug the headphones. Any
>> Idea what might be causing this, and is there a way to make it
>> remember I have my headphones plugged into the front panel?
>> Please tell me if you need more info.
>
> This happens for me too if the last profile I manually selected on the
> sound card was a surround profile (however, I get sound from the
> speakers unlike you, but the kernel driver might auto-mute the speaker
> output in your case). The code that is responsible for automatically
> switching between headphones and speakers doesn't work correctly during
> startup if the selected profile is not the analog stereo profile.
>
> So, what profile is initially active when this happens? If it's not the
> stereo profile, then it's probably the same issue that I observe here.
> You can check the profile with command
>
> LANG=C pactl list cards | grep "Active Profile"
>
> --
> Tanu