Bug 587972 - No convenient way to switch to headphones
Summary: No convenient way to switch to headphones
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-01 22:22 UTC by John
Modified: 2010-12-03 15:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-03 15:13:27 UTC
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Description John 2010-05-01 22:22:52 UTC
Description of problem:
When I plug in my headphones there is no easy way to output sound to just them and have the speakers turn off.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio.i686   0.9.21-5.fc12

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in Headphones
2. Listen
  
Actual results:
Sound outputs through speakers and headphones.

Expected results:
Speaker output turns off. Sound plays only through headphones.


Additional info:
Ability is possible under Windows to detect headphones being plugged into the front headphone port on my computer. Speaker power switch is on subwoofer, would require me to crawl under desk to turn off. While speakers are on the headphones can be used as a weak microphone to output to the speakers. The speakers can be disabled through alsamixer by toggling the "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack" for my Sound Blaster card to "on" at which point sound only emanates from the headphones and the speakers no longer output any noise from the headphones. NOTE: The headphones are really weak at picking up noise, you have to tap on them or speak really loud to get some output. I'm guessing that switch in alsa is toggling the front port from an output to input port (or they just didn't isolate the output ports well enough on this particular card).

Card info from ALSA:
 Card: SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0353]
 Chip: SigmaTel STAC9721,23

Smolt Profile:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_50d6c5cf-7ab6-449e-8311-0776ec26e5a

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 15:53:04 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 15:13:27 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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