PulseAudio only works with headphones

[Mike Burns]

On 2009-06-21 14.14.12 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Mike Burns wrote:
> > In GNOME, System > Preferences > Sound > Output only lists /dev/dsp0 .
> 
> Gnome only knows how to deal with dsp0.  IMHO, that needs to be fixed
> upstream, but I have no idea if it is being worked on.

I see no bugs about this on bugzilla.gnome.org, but I do see this: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/96198 . Could be related.

In which project should this bug be reported? PulseAudio?

> > [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)
> 
> You have 2 analog codecs.  Try setting hw.snd.default_unit=1 and see if
> you get output on different ports.

Tried that, set it in my /etc/sysctl.conf, rebooted; still nothing. 

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