PulseAudio only works with headphones

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:53 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:35 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:17 -0400, Mike Burns wrote:
> > > Not too many details for this one, sadly. Totem, etc., only output audio 
> > > through the line-out (headphone) jack.
> > > 
> > > System > Preferences > Sound > Output only lists /dev/dsp0 .
> > > 
> > > [mike] ~% cat /dev/sndstat
> > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64)
> > > Installed devices:
> > > pcm0: <HDA Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 
> > > kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
> > > pcm1: <HDA Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 
> > > kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex)
> > > [mike] ~% ps ax | grep pulse
> > > 1408  ??  Is     0:00.97 /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
> > > 1409  ??  I      0:00.01 /usr/local/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
> > > [mike] ~% pulseaudio --version
> > > I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
> > > W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed 
> > > by policy.
> > > pulseaudio 0.9.14
> > > 
> > > Is there another FAQ I'm missing?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > A bit of a background on this system: freshly installed 7.2-RELEASE a week 
> > > ago, upgraded the OS to -STABLE and the ports to the latest as of Saturday.  
> > > The computer is a Thinkpad T500.
> > 
> > I think this probably should be reported to the mobile or sound people.
> > I have the same problem with the HDA sound card in my MacBook Pro.  The
> > internal speakers do not work, but headphones do.
> 
> They are probably showing up as different codecs... In which case you
> have to either select the correct pcmX device or set
> hw.snd.default_unit=X to the correct codec.  Gnome currently doesn't
> seem to have the ability to deal with multiple codecs for different
> outputs, which kinda sucks...
> 
> Most of my boxes have (desktop boards) have different hda codecs for
> front panel, rear, digital and HDMI ports.

Ooh, thanks.  Now I remember you talking about that before.  I'll give
that a shot on my MacBook.

Joe

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