Bug 400951

Summary: Pulseaudio forgets default device between reboots
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steven Côté <steven.cote>
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Steven Côté 2007-11-27 13:43:55 UTC 
Description of problem:
Pulseaudio never remembers which audio device I set as default. I have a PCI
audio card and a USB headset. Both work fine and as expected and I'm able to set
either as the default device via the PulseAudio Volume Control and the sound
comes out where I expect. After I reboot though, the headset is always selected
as the default device, regardless of which device was set as default when I
logged out.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have 2 devices available to pulseaudio
2. Change the default device
3. reboot
  
Actual results:
The default device always reverts back to whichever device it considers to be
the default (in my case, the usb headset)

Expected results:
The default device should still be set to whatever I made it, in my case I would
prefer the PCI card.
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2007-11-30 00:10:52 UTC 
This is a know bug and has been fixed in PA 0.9.8, which is available in Rawhide.

A simple fix is to run "mkdir ~/.pulse" manually.

http://pulseaudio.org/changeset/2078

I will push 0.9.8 into F8 eventually when it has stabilized a bit in Rawhide.