[pulseaudio-discuss] internal speaker silent in Asus eee netbook (patch)

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 10:35 +0200, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On Sun Oct 15 09:50:43 Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 18:12 +0200, Guenter Milde wrote:
> > > My test shows that with "switch=mute", I can toggle the mute-state of
> > > speaker and headphones independently. Unmuting the speaker does not
> > > unmute the headphones and vice versa.
> > How did you test? Since the Headphone element mutes both headphones and
> > speakers, you can't mute headphones independently from speakers. If you
> > mean that you can mute the sink in pulseaudio while using headphones,
> > and the sink gets automatically unmuted when you switch to the speaker
> > port, that's because PulseAudio stores the sink mute status separately
> > for the two ports and the alsa mixer gets updated during a port switch.
> 
> With the above patch:  after plugging in headphones, sound is in the
> headphones and the internal speaker is muted.
> 
> In the pulseaudio mixer, I open the tab Output. There, I can select the
> active Port from a drop down list with the options Speaker and
> Headphones. 
> 
> Changing the volume or muting in the GUI elements below affects the active
> port only:
> 
> * If I switch the active port to speaker, I can unmute the speaker and
>   control the volume. Now, both headphones and speakers emit audible sound.
>   
> * If I switch the active port to headphones, I can mute the headphones.
>   This does *not* change the speaker setting in my case:
>   Despite the headphones plugged in, the speaker emits sound at the previous
>   volume and the headphone is mute.

Ok, now I'm confused. The last sentence describes a situation that I'd
expect to be impossible with your patched configuration. What does the
following command print?

     amixer -c0 get Headphone

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