Bug 93006

Summary: headphone output is not preferred over HDMI
Product: PulseAudio Reporter: Jussi Kukkonen <jku>
Component: coreAssignee: pulseaudio-bugs
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: lennart, tanuk
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Jussi Kukkonen 2015-11-19 08:53:49 UTC 
Tanu has a patchset that makes HDMI audio work out of the box on NUCs that expose two different cards by adding some profile availability management logic to module-alsa-card: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/24301

After those patches HDMI output works but plugging in headphones doesn't change the default device. Quote:
> On this hardware analog and HDMI outputs are on different cards, and the 
> routing policy in PulseAudio doesn't currently automatically change the default
> device from one card to another, and also doesn't prefer one device type over
> another. I agree that headphones should be preferred by default.
> 
> If you file another bug, I'll try to do something about it. It might turn out
> to be tricky, though.

pactl list: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/attachment.cgi?id=2793
(this is without tanus patchset, just to document the setup).
Comment 1 Tanu Kaskinen 2016-09-08 11:28:35 UTC 
Here's a partial fix:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/109460/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/109461/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/109462/

It's "partial", because I think a full fix would mean moving existing streams from HDMI to headphones when headphones are plugged in. My current plan is to work on that next month.
Comment 2 Tanu Kaskinen 2016-10-25 13:03:35 UTC 
Here's an additional patch that makes streams move when the default sink or source changes:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/118062/
Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 10:15:28 UTC 
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