I use a notebook with an "build-in audio" device. The internal speakers use a profile "analog stereo duplex". When I plug a HDMI device more HDMI profiles appearing. So far everything is okay. When I unplug the HDMI cable the "build in audio" device disappears from the audio-settings menu. It is deactivated now and I have to re-enable it from the "configure" menu by selecting another Profile. plasma should select profiles automatically cause this behavior is very confusing. For the user it looks like his audio device is just disappeared. The second problem appears if the notebook is entering sleep mode while removing the HDMI cable because the lid is closed in this moment. Than and sometimes even without doing this, audio profiles disappearing randomly. (this might be an problem with pipewire maybe?) I am not able to get any audio output in this case before i restart the system. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Arch Linux with latest git-version of KDE KDE 5.22 shows the same behavior pipewire as pulseaudio replacement
This is a PipeWire bug; please report upstream. It bugs me too. :)
I think I found two issues reporting this behavior in a slightly different way. B https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1303 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1038
heh, I just filed https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1316
Please report this to Pipewire. Plasma is not involved in determining where audio should play, except for the case where the user explicitly moves a stream. But even then it should be PipeWire's responsibility to ensure that the stream is switched away once the device becomes unavailable
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #4) > Please report this to Pipewire. Plasma is not involved in determining where > audio should play, except for the case where the user explicitly moves a > stream. But even then it should be PipeWire's responsibility to ensure that > the stream is switched away once the device becomes unavailable Oops, that comment was meant for another report