Port muted on boot/resume from suspend

[luisbocanegra]

Currently, it is necessary to unmute the internal speakers or jack output every reboot or after suspending. For me this happened only sometimes but now it happens every time.

Tasks

• [x] Investigate the problem
• [ ] Find a solution/workaround

[luisbocanegra]

Looks like disabling Speaker detection for Headphones fixes this (same process as 2 Disable Headphone jack detection for speakers but for wired output)

To quickly test this edit /usr/share/alsa-card-profile/mixer/paths/analog-output-headphones.conf

Below

[General]
priority = 99
description-key = analog-output-headphones

[Properties]
device.icon_name = audio-headphones

Add this

[Jack Speaker]
state.plugged = unknown
state.unplugged = unknown

And comment this

;[Element Speaker]
;switch = off
;volume = off

Restart pipewire systemctl restart --user pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire.socket wireplumber

After doing that the availability of both ports should be unknown e.g:

$ pactl list sinks | grep -E 'Name|Desc|State|Port|device.profile-set|availability'
        State: RUNNING
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-headphones.3
        Description: Built-in Audio Headphones
                device.profile-set = "/etc/alsa-card-profile/mixer/profile-sets/split-ports-profile.conf"
        Ports:
                analog-output-headphones: Headphones (type: Headphones, priority: 9900, availability group: Legacy 3, availability unknown)
        Active Port: analog-output-headphones
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-speaker
        Description: Built-in Audio Speakers
                device.profile-set = "/etc/alsa-card-profile/mixer/profile-sets/split-ports-profile.conf"
        Ports:
                analog-output-speaker-split: Speakers (type: Speaker, priority: 10000, availability group: Legacy 3, availability unknown)
        Active Port: analog-output-speaker-split

[mh0rst]

I had the same issue with an Ubuntu 23.10 installation, in my case upgrading to 24.04 LTS fixed the muting issue.

My package versions after upgrading which might be relevant:

ii  alsa-base                     1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu7
ii  alsa-tools                    1.2.11-1build2
ii  alsa-tools-gui                1.2.5-3
ii  alsa-topology-conf            1.2.5.1-2
ii  alsa-ucm-conf                 1.2.10-1ubuntu5
ii  alsa-utils                    1.2.9-1ubuntu5
ii  gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64       1.24.2-1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0t64:amd64    1.0.5-1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-common        1.0.5-1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 1.0.5-1
ii  libsox-fmt-alsa:amd64         14.4.2+git20190427-4build4
ii  libwireplumber-0.4-0:amd64    0.4.17-1ubuntu4
ii  pipewire-alsa:amd64           1.0.5-1
ii  pipewire-audio                1.0.5-1
ii  pipewire-bin                  1.0.5-1
ii  pipewire-pulse                1.0.5-1
ii  pipewire:amd64                1.0.5-1
ii  wireplumber                   0.4.17-1ubuntu4

[luisbocanegra]

That's interesting, for me this workaround has been working great. Just tried restoring the original analog-output-headphones.conf and it it still mutes here, these are my versions:

paru -Q $(paru -Qsq "alsa-*|pipewire|wireplumber")
alsa-card-profiles 1:1.0.5-1
alsa-lib 1.2.11-1
alsa-plugins 1:1.2.7.1-2
alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-3
alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.11-1
alsa-utils 1.2.11-1
easyeffects 7.1.6-1
kpipewire 6.0.4-1
lib32-alsa-lib 1.2.11-1
lib32-alsa-plugins 1.2.7.1-2
libpipewire 1:1.0.5-1
libwireplumber 0.5.2-1
pipewire 1:1.0.5-1
pipewire-alsa 1:1.0.5-1
pipewire-audio 1:1.0.5-1
pipewire-jack 1:1.0.5-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.0.5-1
qemu-audio-alsa 8.2.2-2
qemu-audio-pipewire 8.2.2-2
wireplumber 0.5.2-1