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DevPre

Member

Registered: 2018-01-23

Posts: 8

Audio device randomly switching

Hi guys, i have a PC with a p8z68-v motherboard with ALC892 and i just installed Arch (+KDE) on it. For some reason while i play youtube videos on firefox/chromium the audio device keeps switching from the rear port to the front port for a fraction of a second resulting in a pop/crackle. Unplugging the speakers from the rear port and plugging them to the front port seems to solve the problem, but it's really annoying and there has to be a better way to fix this problem.

Pulseaudio's daemon.conf: https://pastebin.com/W2h5QV0P
Pulseaudio's default.pa: https://pastebin.com/ucQZKBpe

>uname -r
4.14.13-1-ARCH

Thanks for the support!

Last edited by DevPre (2018-01-23 13:38:38)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,074

Re: Audio device randomly switching

On some cards there are issues with automatic jack sensing, try to comment/remove

load-module module-switch-on-port-available

in line 33 of your default.pa and restart pulse and check if that fixes it.

if it doesn't post

amixer -c$cardindex #Where $cardindex is the index number returned by aplay -l