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Re: Problem with the two audio devices



On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:16:11AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 22/05/14 11:00, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since a couple of weeks, I have two audio devices to choose for audio
> > output. One is "Speakers" and the other is "Analog Output" (translated
> > from German). The problem is, that I have to switch very often between
> > the two of them, depending if I have my laptop in the docking station,
> > the headphones in or just using it as is -- one output will produce
> > output and the other will not.
> > 
> > Before, I never had to switch anything and it always worked. Is there a
> > way to tell Gnome (I suspect it is a Gnome issue since it started AFAIK
> > with 3.8 or 3.12) to combine the two, Or at least do something
> > automatically? From my point of view the laptop should have only one
> > output device.
> 
> I have exactly the same issue with my x230. When docking it, I have to manually
> change the output. It was working fine with 3.8 a while ago but is now broken,
> still in 3.8. Could have been a kernel regression, or pulseaudio. I haven't
> investigated it yet though.
> 
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I had this issue happen (once) too - when I plugged in my earphones
after updating Jessie on my X300 the other day. It was a toogle from one
to the other very similar to what you two refer to. Haven't had it
happen since though <shrug>.


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