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Hunman

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Registered: 2017-10-15

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] PulseAudio won't change when connecting new device

My older laptop stipped switching the audio profile, a week or so ago, when I connect my headphones via jack

I usually have my speakers muted (1st picture)
And the system seemingly does recognise when I connect my headphones, but it does not switch to that profile (2nd picture)
When I switch to that device manually, the volume goes up to what I have set on that profile (3rd picture)

Upon trying to read up on this problem on the internet, I've heard a solution that I should add the following line to the config...

# /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-switch-on-port-available # This line was in the config already
load-module module-switch-on-connect        # And I added this line right after

...and then restart pulse

$ systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service

When I ask pacmd for the loaded modules, both do appear on the list, but my problem still persists

$ list-modules | grep switch
    name: <module-switch-on-port-available>
    name: <module-switch-on-connect>
        module.description = "When a sink/source is added, switch to it or conditionally switch to it"

I tried to uncomment one or both of the lies, use only one or the other, but none of those combinations seem to be working
The system is up to date and has been restarted a few times since

Thank you for any help

https://i.imgur.com/FL63j1Z.png

Replaced oversized image -- V1del

Last edited by Hunman (2020-11-09 22:39:52)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,743

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio won't change when connecting new device

That's a contested change in the explicit pulse 13.99.3 rc release. Only GNOME has support for even showing a relevant UI, and the automatic fallback that used to happen doesn't anymore. The quick way is to downgrade to the previous 13.99.2+22+ga9c6d43b7-1 version of the package and follow the discussion in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaud … ssues/1028 on whether a relevant consensus will be found on doing a proper fallback again.

Also please don't embed big pictures directly: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

Last edited by V1del (2020-11-09 22:18:06)

Hunman

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Registered: 2017-10-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio won't change when connecting new device

Thank you very much, downgrading the pulseaudio, libpulse, and pulseaudio-bluetooth trio indeed fixed it

And sorry about the image