Bug 2831 - no sound/mic permanently if speakers/microphone isn't connected when client connects
Summary: no sound/mic permanently if speakers/microphone isn't connected when client c...
Status: NEW
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Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Sound (show other bugs)
Version: pre-1.0
Hardware: PC Windows
: P2 Enhancement
Target Milestone: LowPrio
Assignee: Pierre Ossman
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Reported: 2008-07-01 14:26 CEST by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2017-03-28 13:33 CEST (History)
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Description Pierre Ossman cendio 2008-07-01 14:26:28 CEST 
Windows Vista has the nice new feature of sound cards being removed whenever it detects that speaker or microphone isn't connected. That means that Pulseaudio will fail to open the sound card, and the user will have no sound even if the speakers are plugged back in.

I'm not sure what they were smoking when they came up with this, or how to solve it. We might have to keep polling the connection in case something shows up. The newer suspend features of pulseaudio might help a bit.
Comment 1 Pierre Ossman cendio 2008-07-01 14:30:59 CEST 
Unplugging the speakers or microphone during an active session also kills the sound until you log in again.
Comment 2 Peter Åstrand cendio 2009-12-22 14:45:42 CET 
Same problem with Windows 7.
Comment 3 Pierre Ossman cendio 2010-09-09 14:01:55 CEST 
Another fun behaviour because of this is that you get no sound unless you have both speakers and a microphone plugged in. Just speakers is insufficient.
Comment 4 Karl Mikaelsson cendio 2013-04-08 13:42:36 CEST 
Same problem with Windows 8.
Comment 5 Pierre Ossman cendio 2014-08-14 12:44:53 CEST 
Note that the problem got mitigated in bug 3222 where we load the waveout module twice, once for playback and once for recording. This avoids the issue of not having a microphone plugged in. We still cannot handle hotplug properly though.
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