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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1521987 Title: Sound is not automatically switched back from headphones to speakers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/1521987/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
