Bug 288877

Summary: Phonon HW setup does not show all connectors if they have the same priority
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] Phonon Reporter: Uros <ubizjak>
Component: settingsAssignee: Harald Sitter <sitter>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: colin, jb, martin.sandsmark, myriam, negora
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.6.0   
Target Milestone: 4.5.2   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: "pacmd list-sources" output
"aplay -L" output.

Description Uros 2011-12-13 09:40:40 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

"pacmd list-sources" shows:

        ports:
                analog-input-microphone;input-microphone-1: Analog Microphone / Microphone 1 (priority 10020)
                analog-input-microphone;input-microphone-2: Analog Microphone / Microphone 2 (priority 10019)
                analog-input-linein: Analog Line-In (priority 9000)
                analog-input: Analog Input (priority 9000)
                analog-input-video: Analog Video (priority 7000)
        active port: <analog-input-microphone;input-microphone-1>

However, "Analog Line-In" is NOT shown in the Connector drop-down menu of Phonon device setup. Effectively, the connector can NOT be selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check "pacmd list-sources" if there are entries with the same priority.

3. Start Phonon setup (settings -> Audio Setup) from KMix.

4. Go to Audio Hardware Setup.

2. Notice missing connectors of appropriate Sound Card/Sound Device.

Actual Results:  
Missing connectors in drop-down menu.

Expected Results:  
Connectors should be shown.

The connector can be selected without problems with alsamixer.
Comment 1 negora 2012-05-19 11:07:43 UTC
I was going to open a separate bug report, but after reading this one, I believe that my problem is related to the error described here. Apologies in advance if it's not the case.

I own an Asus EeePC 1015 PN (ION 2 platform) that, apart of an analogue sound output, has a digital HDMI output. I've Kubuntu 12.04 installed in it, but it also happened in Kubuntu 11.10.

"alsamixer" lists 4 different connectors for the HDMI output, but only one corresponds to the physical one of my computer. The PulseAudio configuration GUI "pavumeter" also reports 4 connectors. However, the Phonon configuration panel only lists 2 of them, being none of them the one which I need to use. This makes impossible for any non-advanced user to get sound through the HDMI connector.

When I've read this bug report, I've checked the output of "pacmd list-sources", as it's stated below, and it seems that two sources share the same priority. They're the analogue and HDMI sources, which share the priority 1050. May it be the cause in my case too? If not, I will open a separate bug report.
Comment 2 negora 2012-05-19 11:22:50 UTC
Created attachment 71215 [details]
"pacmd list-sources" output

Here the analogue and digital source seem to share the same priority too (1050).
Comment 3 negora 2012-05-19 11:26:01 UTC
Created attachment 71216 [details]
"aplay -L" output.

This is just to check that in my case there are 4 HDMI digital outputs, in spite of the fact that the Phonon hardware settings tab only shows 2 of them.
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-05-22 06:49:12 UTC
Setting status to confirmed.
Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 22:36:54 UTC
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 6 Uros 2021-03-10 07:25:46 UTC
Kmix is not installed by default on Fedora-33 anymore.

Anyway - after 10 years, this report is obsolete. I would mark it RESOLVED, but there is no OBSOLETE resolution.