Bug#998368: pulseaudio: Pulseaudio disabling auto-mute mode

Gert van de Kraats vd.Kraats at hccnet.nl
Wed Nov 3 00:01:46 GMT 2021


Package: pulseaudio
Version: 15.0+dfsg1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

Recently I installed new updates, including pulseaudio:

2021-10-19 23:32:51 upgrade pulseaudio:i386 14.2-2 15.0+dfsg1-2
2021-10-19 23:47:37 status installed pulseaudio:i386 15.0+dfsg1-2

After these update(s) the internal speaker of the laptop is not going
automatically to mute,
if the headphone is plugged in.

If I enable auto-mute, the internal speaker is going to mute, as wished.

As soon as I remove the headphone-plug,
auto-mute is immediately disabled  at alsamixer.

If I plug-in the headphone again, the internal speaker is not going to 
mute, as
wished.

File /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/speaker.conf contains the next
extra lines,
if I compare with version 14.2.2 :

; Make sure the internal speakers are not auto-muted once the system has
speakers
[Element Auto-Mute Mode]
enumeration = select

[Option Auto-Mute Mode:Disabled]
name = analog-output-speaker


If I comment out these lines, auto-mute is not disabled anymore by 
pulseaudio,
and Auto-Mute works as designed.

Probably this "fix" is coming from
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/433/diffs?commit_id=19e34d8d5bb9380ed70607b3f661c26df6d4836c 
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/433/diffs?commit_id=19e34d8d5bb9380ed70607b3f661c26df6d4836c>
.
  It is a strange "fix" . because it completely destroys the 
functionality of
Auto-Mute.

I reported about almost the same problem at Bullseye Testing at February 
2021
with
bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981572 
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981572> .


My laptop is a simple DELL D620, without any additional audiocard.
If the internal speakers can not become  mute independent of the headphone
it cannot be used anymore at video-conference and at a shared office.


-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.118
ii  init-system-helpers          1.60
ii  libasound2                   1.2.5.1-1
ii  libasound2-plugins           1.2.5-2
ii  libc6                        2.32-4
ii  libcap2                      1:2.44-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.12.20-3
ii  libfftw3-single3             3.3.8-2
ii  libgcc-s1                    11.2.0-10
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.70.0-3
ii  libice6                      2:1.0.10-1
ii  libltdl7                     2.4.6-15
ii  liborc-0.4-0                 1:0.4.32-1
ii  libpulse0                    15.0+dfsg1-2
ii  libsm6                       2:1.2.3-1
ii  libsndfile1                  1.0.31-2
ii  libsoxr0                     0.1.3-4
ii  libspeexdsp1                 1.2~rc1.2-1.1
ii  libstdc++6                   11.2.0-10
ii  libsystemd0                  249.5-1
ii  libtdb1                      1.4.3-1+b1
ii  libudev1                     249.5-1
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing1  0.3-1+b1
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.7.2-2+b1
ii  libx11-xcb1                  2:1.7.2-2+b1
ii  libxcb1                      1.14-3
ii  libxtst6                     2:1.2.3-1
ii  lsb-base                     11.1.0
ii  pulseaudio-utils             15.0+dfsg1-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session        1.12.20-3
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]  249.5-1
ii  rtkit                    0.13-4

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paprefs      <none>
ii  pavucontrol  5.0-2
pn  pavumeter    <none>
ii  udev         249.5-1

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# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or 
# for
## commenting.

; default-sink =
; default-source =
; default-server =
; default-dbus-server =

; autospawn = yes
; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog

; cookie-file =

; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, 
usually 64 MiB

; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no

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# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See 
pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or 
# for
## commenting.

; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; enable-memfd = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, 
usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no

; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11

; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5

; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20

; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)

; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa

; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0

; resample-method = speex-float-1
; avoid-resampling = false
; enable-remixing = yes
; remixing-use-all-sink-channels = yes
; remixing-produce-lfe = no
; remixing-consume-lfe = no
; lfe-crossover-freq = 0

; flat-volumes = no

; rescue-streams = yes

; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 200000

; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right

; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25

; enable-deferred-volume = yes
; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0

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#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
# (i.e. not in system mode)

.fail

### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore

### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties

### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect
load-module module-switch-on-port-available

### Load audio drivers statically
### (it's probably better to not load these drivers manually, but instead
### use module-udev-detect -- see below -- for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output 
source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output 
source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev 
support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
.fail
.endif

### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif

.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif

### Load several protocols
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish

### Load the RTP receiver module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv

### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 
rate=44100 sink_properties="device.description='RTP Multicast Sink'"
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor

### Load additional modules from GSettings. This can be configured with 
the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might 
conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gsettings.so
.nofail
load-module module-gsettings
.fail
.endif

### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent 
modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore

### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink

### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif

### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds

### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
load-module module-role-cork

### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation)
### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters
### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of
### loading modules and rerouting streams.
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply

### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

### Allow including a default.pa.d directory, which if present, can be used
### for additional configuration snippets.
.nofail
.include /etc/pulse/default.pa.d

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#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started in system
# mode.

### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack 
udev/hal support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

### Load several protocols
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent 
modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore

### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds

### Allow including a system.pa.d directory, which if present, can be used
### for additional configuration snippets.
.nofail
.include /etc/pulse/system.pa.d

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null
     Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default
     Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
lavrate
     Rate Converter Plugin Using Libav/FFmpeg Library
samplerate
     Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library
speexrate
     Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler
jack
     JACK Audio Connection Kit
oss
     Open Sound System
pulse
     PulseAudio Sound Server
upmix
     Plugin for channel upmix (4,6,8)
vdownmix
     Plugin for channel downmix (stereo) with a simple spacialization
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Digital
     Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Digital
     Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     Front output / input
surround21:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Digital
     IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Analog
     Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
     HDA Intel, STAC9200 Digital
     Direct sample mixing device
usbstream:CARD=Intel
     HDA Intel
     USB Stream Output


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