In my specific case I have two output devices: 1. an audio card integrated in the motherboard 2. and an external microphone that has a monitoring output jack
Each of them results in two selectable options (there's always a second "Digital Output (S/PDIF)" prefixed one) in the Ubuntu settings for a total of 4. After startup the usb microphone is selected as the output device so I have to switch it to the integrated sound card analog output. (you can see details about each device in the `pactl list sinks` output in my "workaround" comment) Also whenever I connect my guitar amp (also acts as sound output) it is automatically selected as the active device and disconnecting it results in the microphone being selected again no matter what I had selected before connecting the amp. There is no HDMI involved anywhere. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1924852 Title: Selected output device in Sound settings is not persisted across restarts Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: # Introduction My computer has multiple audio devices, so I had to select the correct one in the "Sound" section of "Settings". This worked fine, except that whenever I restart the computer this setting resets to the original one. Effectively I have to visit the sound settings on each system startup in order to hear anything. # How to reproduce 1. have system with multiple audio outputs 2. open sound settings 3. select non-default output device 4. restart computer 5. open sound settings # Expected result Selected audio device is the same as the one selected right before restart. # Actual result The active output device is the original default one (i.e. not the one that we selected). # System information $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Release: 20.04 $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.36.1-1ubuntu5 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1924852/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
