[pulseaudio-discuss] Inserting headphone "locks" audio

[Sean Greenslade]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 07:18:30AM -0700, John Oliver wrote:
> I have two drop-downs, both titled "Built-in Audio"  The top is "Digital
> Stereo (HDMI) Output" and the other is "Analog Stereo Duplex"
> 
> I'm not clear on what I would change.  The top one has a bunch of other
> options, all of which are unplugged and unavailable.  The other has three
> more options... "Analog Stereo Input", "Analog Stereo Output", and "Off"

I would guess that the dock shows up as a separate audio device from the
internal sound card on the laptop, hence the two options listed in
pavucontrol. But to confirm, can you post the output you get from the
following command:

$ pactl list cards

That should give some more detail on what the two audio devices are.

--Sean