Bug 337877 - Linux mint 17 KDE is not saving the audio hardware setting on change of sound device
Summary: Linux mint 17 KDE is not saving the audio hardware setting on change of sound...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 321550
Alias: None
Product: Phonon
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: kded module for audio device listing (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based) Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 4.8
Assignee: Harald Sitter
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Reported: 2014-07-29 09:35 UTC by vipin balakrishnan
Modified: 2015-08-25 02:37 UTC (History)
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Description vipin balakrishnan 2014-07-29 09:35:30 UTC 
Hello 

I'm using Linux Mint 17 KDE. Under System setting=> Multimedia=> Audio hardware setting is not saving.

Linux Mint 17 KDE
KDE 4.13
Linux kernel 3.13

This issue is there in all the version of mint which has audio hardware tab.

Please check the below video to see how to reproduce the issues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdndTymTdU


Thanks you

Best Regards
Vipin Balakrishnan
Comment 1 Harald Sitter 2014-07-29 11:43:09 UTC 
Sound Device is a selection so you can configure the Connector of a device, sound device priority is controlled by the Device Preference tab.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 321550 ***
Comment 2 vipin balakrishnan 2014-07-29 17:25:29 UTC 
Thanks for the reply.  So the audio hardware setup is only for changing the connector, for example changing from "analog output" to "Analog surrounding 4.0 output"? But this also not getting saved after clicking apply button.
Comment 3 Harald Sitter 2014-07-29 17:37:41 UTC 
That's a pulseaudio problem most likely then. e.g. possibly your ~/.pulse directory has incorrect permissions. Eitherway, all the KCM does is forward the settings to pulseaudio, pulseaudio then apparently likes to not store them for various reasons (there are numerous other bug reports on similar incarnations of this).
Comment 4 vipin balakrishnan 2014-07-29 17:44:06 UTC 
Can you please refer me some of the bug id which is pointing to this issue. So that it will not be again a duplicate bug.
Comment 5 Harald Sitter 2014-07-29 17:45:07 UTC 
I do not track pulseaudio bugs, you might want to consult the pulseaudio bug tracker.
Comment 6 vipin balakrishnan 2014-07-29 17:49:45 UTC 
Just one more question, If it is a pulseaudio bug then why the same bug is not appearing in other distro like gnome. There  connector is working properly and saving the settings. So is it an integration issue of KDE with pulseaudio?
Comment 7 Harald Sitter 2014-07-29 17:52:22 UTC 
There's a load of possible causes, like I said it could be a permission issue, it could be a problem with the kde module inside pulseaudio, it could be that two pulseaudios are running due to a well known startup race etc. etc.
It certainly does limit the possibly causes a bit that it only happens with the KCM, it doesn't really point at anything specific though.
Comment 8 Felipe Morales 2015-08-25 02:37:15 UTC 
Something like this happens on Debian 8 Jessie. KDE 4.14.2 trying to select as default card a usb headset and when you reboot the sound card by default is the analog.