[pulseaudio-discuss] configure a soundcard?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 5:27 AM Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 07:37 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 4:28 AM Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > > > Card #1
> > > >         Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_14.2
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > >         Ports:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > >                 analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority: 9900,
> latency
> > > > offset: 0 usec, not available)
> > > >                         Part of profile(s): output:analog-stereo,
> > > > output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:analog-surround-21,
> > > > output:analog-surround-21+input:analog-stereo,
> output:analog-surround-40,
> > > > output:analog-surround-40+input:analog-stereo,
> output:analog-surround-41,
> > > > output:analog-surround-41+input:analog-stereo,
> output:analog-surround-50,
> > > > output:analog-surround-50+input:analog-stereo,
> output:analog-surround-51,
> > > > output:analog-surround-51+input:analog-stereo,
> output:analog-surround-71,
> > > > output:analog-surround-71+input:analog-stereo
> > > >                 analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority: 9000,
> > > > latency offset: 0 usec, not available)
> > > >                         Properties:
> > > >                                 device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
> > > >                         Part of profile(s): output:analog-stereo,
> > > > output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
> > > >                 iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF)
> (priority:
> > > 0,
> > > > latency offset: 0 usec)
> > > >                         Part of profile(s): output:iec958-stereo,
> > > > output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo
> > >
> > > Both analog ports are marked as "not available", which means that to
> > > PulseAudio looks like nothing is plugged in in either connector. This
> > > is the reason why PulseAudio always picks the digital output on boot.
> > > Broken jack detection is is a hardware or driver issue, which can be
> > > worked around, see below.
> > >
> >
> > Ahhh. Understood.
> >
> >
> > > > >     while read -r line; do amixer -c0 cget "$line"; done <<<
> $(amixer
> > > -c0
> > > > > controls | grep Jack)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > numid=1,iface=CARD,name='HDMI/DP,pcm=3 Jack'
> > > >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> > > >   : values=on
> > > > numid=7,iface=CARD,name='HDMI/DP,pcm=7 Jack'
> > > >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> > > >   : values=off
> > >
> > > It seems that I guessed wrong the card number. Card 0 seems to be the
> > > HDMI card, while we're interested in the analog sound card, which is
> > > alsa card 1. So change the script to this:
> > >
> > >     while read -r line; do amixer -c0 cget "$line"; done <<< $(amixer
> -c0
> > > controls | grep Jack)
> > >
> >
> > I'm guessing I should change the above -c0's to -c1's.
>
> Oops! Yes, that's what I meant.
>
> > Here is that output:
> >
> > numid=44,iface=CARD,name='CD Phantom Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=on
> > numid=49,iface=CARD,name='Front Headphone Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=42,iface=CARD,name='Front Mic Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=43,iface=CARD,name='Line Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=47,iface=CARD,name='Line Out CLFE Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=45,iface=CARD,name='Line Out Front Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=48,iface=CARD,name='Line Out Side Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=46,iface=CARD,name='Line Out Surround Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=41,iface=CARD,name='Rear Mic Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
> > numid=50,iface=CARD,name='SPDIF Jack'
> >   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=r-------,values=1
> >   : values=off
>
> Okay, the relevant jacks are "Front Headphone" and "Line Out Front". I
> don't know if you're trying to use the headphone or the line out port,
> but if you can disable jack detection for both:
>

Empirical evidence suggests I am using Line Out.

Thanks for all the help. It works great!

-m
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