Bug 422698

Summary: HDMI Audio output setting lost, device not saved, goes to default screen.
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Me <linuxguy123>
Component: generic-multiscreenAssignee: Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: plasma-bugs-null, qydwhotmail
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.21.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Me 2020-06-09 22:14:07 UTC 
SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set up KDE to operate on 2 screens.  Primary screen is screen #2, on the right. Secondary screen is to the left, rotated 90 degrees.  Login is to occur on the primary screen.  Sound should come out of the primary screen. 

2. Set up sound to use HDMI output.  Use PulseAudio Volume Control to select HDMI out and the primary screen for output.

OBSERVED RESULT

Half the time there is no sound and one has to go to the sound widget in panel and select HDMI as the Default Device.  (The Default Device icon is messed up as well.) 

Every time the computer is rebooted the sound will default back to screen #1.  The user must open PulseAudio Volume Control and reset the audio to come out of the primary screen.  Sometimes this happens every time the computer goes to sleep and/or every time you log out.

Thus every reboot or sleep you have to go in and reset and fiddle with the HDMI audio settings. 

EXPECTED RESULT

1) The HDMI output device should be retained across reboots, sleep, logouts, etc. 

2) The selection of HDMI audio as the default should be retained across reboots, sleep, logouts, etc. 


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Fedora 32
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70.0
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Kernel Version: 5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 62.8 GiB of RAM


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Video card and driver independent.  Happens with both Intel and NVidia display adapters and Intel, nouveau and Nvidia drivers.
Comment 1 Fushan Wen 2021-05-05 12:56:47 UTC 
I can also confirm the bug.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210502
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.12.0-2-default
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD RENOIR
Comment 2 Fushan Wen 2021-07-01 11:18:09 UTC 
The setting should be able to be saved now.