#986211 pulseaudio: how default card profile is determined not documented

Package:
pulseaudio
Source:
pulseaudio
Description:
PulseAudio sound server
Submitter:
Arthur Marsh
Date:
2021-03-31 17:03:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#986211#5
Date:
2021-03-31 16:57:16 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

Some unknown upgrade lead to me having to manually select audio profile on initial KDE plasma session after booting.


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Tried the documented:

#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

   * What was the outcome of this action?

the set-default-sink output and set-default-source input did not work until I had manually set the audio profile in KDE plasma

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

What *DID* work was setting the desired profile in default.pa:

set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_03_06.0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-mono

It was *NOT* clear from the documentation that the trailing colon ":" had to be removed from the profile name.

It would help immensely if the process of which profile was selected was documented, with instructions on how to change the start-up profile.

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