Anyone know of an audio connector tasking thing for Linux? I want to have my speakers and headphones both plugged in and switch audio between them as necessary, rather than having to switch what's plugged in all the time. Can't seem to do that through Pulse (at leas not that I can figure out!)
@welshpixie This used to be incredibly easy with ESD but in 2019 we can't have nice things. If you tell Pulse and Alsa both not to mute Line Out when headphones are plugged in, you can set their volumes independently. I got it to work once about a year ago by following this:
But it was such a PITA I gave up on it for my new laptop.
TLDR it takes configuring how both Pulse and Alsa handle the line out and headphones.
@welshpixie (and not all sound cards support it; yours may have a hardware switch that disables line out when the headphone jack is in use -- which is particularly annoying if that jack develops a short)
@weldon Ah, should have specified it's from the motherport ports, not a sound card - but I'll have a look at that link, thanks!