FS#35720 - [pulseaudio][alsa-utils] Auto-Mute mode disabled by default

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Vytenis (DisLike) - Saturday, 08 June 2013, 13:41 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 09:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After each update for about a month alsamixer turns Auto-Mute mode back to disabled on my HDA Intel. This causes sound to be played on speakers even if headphones are connected. Turning Auto-Mute mode to enabled manually using alsamixer (by pressing F6 and choosing HDA Intel) solves the problem till next update.

Additional info:
alsa-lib 1.0.27.1-1
alsa-plugins 1.0.27-1
alsa-utils 1.0.27.1-2
pulseaudio-alsa 2-2


Steps to reproduce:
Update alsa-utils.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 09:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 09 June 2013, 11:37 GMT
Try opening an upstream PulseAudio bug at http://bugs.freedesktop.org
Comment by Vytenis (DisLike) - Sunday, 09 June 2013, 13:22 GMT
I do not believe that bug is related to PulseAudio. More likely it is alsa-utils because alsamixer is part of it. Perhaps it is just the case of overwritting config after update and something wrong about the package itself (unfortunately I do not fully understand how packaging works in regards to configuration so I cannot advise). Currently between updates Auto-Mute does not change and since I turned it on everything still works fine. Let's see what happens with the next update if there is no apparent problem visible.
Comment by Vytenis (DisLike) - Monday, 10 June 2013, 16:42 GMT
Once again alsamixer Auto-Mute got disabled. No idea what disabled it. I performed an update today, but it seems that alsa was not updated during the update... Something keeps reverting the value.

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[2013-06-10 00:24] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
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[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
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[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.9.5-1-ARCH
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [resume]
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
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[2013-06-10 00:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-06-10 00:25] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.9.4-1 -> 3.9.5-1)
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