I am not sure that the suggested patch is a good fix for the problem. As I understand it, with the patch, when the currently active destination becomes unavailable, new destination is chosen on the basis of its priority.
Now consider my own use case: I have S/PDIF and Analog outputs on the chip, but S/PDIF is not connected to anywhere (there is no connector on the box). I have speakers permanently connected to the analog "line out" socket. And I use headphones intermittently. Normally, desktop's audio widget configures "line out" as active, which is what I want. When I plug the headphones, they automatically become active, and speakers are muted, which is what I want, again. But, when I unplug the headphones, (unconnected) S/PDIF becomes active instead of the speakers, and I lose sound until I manually reconfigure the output via the audio widget. I think that my scenario is quite typical (it happens both on my desktop and notebook computers), and should be addressed better. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1521987 Title: Sound is not automatically switched back from headphones to speakers Status in PulseAudio: Unknown Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When plugging in headphones, sound output is correctly switched from speakers (line out) to the headphones. When the headphones are unplugged, sound is NOT automatically switched back to the speakers. This bug started happening on my system after I upgraded from 14.04 to 15.10 so it is a regression. Attached is pulseaudio log of what happens when I plug and unplug my headphones. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/1521987/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
