When I boot, PulseAudio defaults to sending output to Headphones. I'd like it to default to sending output to Line Out. How do I do that?
I can manually change where the output is current sent as follows: launch the Pulseaudio Volume Control application, go to the Output Devices tab, and next to Port, select the Line Out option instead of Headphones. However, I have to do this after each time I boot the machine — after a reboot, Pulseaudio resets itself back to Headphones. That's a bit annoying. How do I make my selection stick and persist across reboots?
Here's a screenshot of how the Volume Control application looks after a reboot, with Headphones selected:
If I click on the chooser next to Port, I get the following two options:
Selecting Line Out makes sound work. (Notice that both Headphones and Line Out are marked as "unplugged", but actually I do have something plugged into the Line Out port.)
Comments: I'm not looking for a way to change the default output device. I have only one sound card. pacmd list-sinks
shows only one sink. Therefore, pacmd set-default-sink
is not helpful. (This doesn't help either.) Here what I need to set is the "Port", not the output device. If it's relevant, I'm using Fedora 20 and pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21.x86_64.
Best Answer
I had the same problem (for at least a year now), and the following seemed to work:
Taken from: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164868
Use
pavucontrol
to change the port to your desired one. Then find the internal name of the port with this command:Using this information about the internal name of the port, we can change it with the command:
If you (or someone else with the problem) has multiple cards, try changing the 0 to a 1.
If this works, you can put:
in your
/etc/pulse/default.pa
file to have it across reboots.