[alsa-devel] HD-audio regression after commit 34588709af61be1550b4e2bcee5c85d0ac4f34d4

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:08:13 -0500,
Miro Hodak wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > > I have been playing with Independent HP feature and while I can get it
> > to work in aplay and mplayer, it does not seem to work on vlc and Skype.
> > Both applications seem to have options for sending sound to HPs ("AD1989B
> > Analog Front Speakers" or "AD1989B Analog (hw: 0,2)" - Skype only), but
> > none of those options sends sound to the HPs. Any thoughts on this?
> >
> > Because the driver should not allow user to change the independent
> > headphone switch when there is any playing stream
> >
> The Independent HP switch is on before starting these apps (vlc and Skype).

Maybe it's because you set it beforehand?
The previous mixer state is restored usually upon login or reboot.


Takashi