2nd sound output not recognised in Ubuntu 22.04 (MSI A520M-A PRO board)

[Robbyx]

I have an a520M-a-pro MSI mother board. It has a built in sound card. I wish to plug in both a head set and a set of desktop speakers. I want to be able to choose in software which output source is used.

I put the headset into the green audio jack for line-out
Desktop speakers are plugged into the orange audio jack.

Only one item is being recognised when two are plugged in.

In the settings sounds, output device only "line out -family 17h... is showing as an option. The second device is not showing as an output device.

In ALSA mixer no channels appear muted.

I have tried reinstalling ALSA and pulseAudio. Made no dif.

I have added " load-module module-alsa-sink" to pulseaudio as it was not present. Made no dif.

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC897 Analog [ALC897 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

What else can i do?

[Robbyx]

Would it be possible to have some help with a 2nd sound input not being recognised?

[Yellow Pasque]

You need to retask the orange jack with hadjackretask. Then, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pul...are_on-the-fly

[Robbyx]

Thank you for your response. I followed the link to find this warning:

.This article or section is out of date.

Reason: /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths has been replaced by /usr/share/alsa-card-profile/mixer/paths (Discuss in TalkulseAudio/Examples#Having both speakers and headphones plugged in and switching in software on-the-fly)

going to the new location

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:PulseAudio/Examples#Having_both_speakers_and_headphones_plugged_in_and_switching_in_software_on-the-fly

You will see the revision says to ensure that the element front complies with the extract shown here::

[Element Front]
switch = off
volume = off

in the [Element Front] section.

My MB has only rear socket connectors for the audio . I do not know which element to alter as there is no exact match to the insruction, especially as all the elements have both the switch and volume switched off . Can you suggest some appropriate changes I could make?

This is my analog-output-headphone.conf

# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
# License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

; Path for mixers that have a 'Headphone' control
;
; See analog-output.conf.common for an explanation on the directives

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

[Properties]
device.icon_name = audio-headphones

[Jack Dock Headphone]
required-any = any

[Jack Dock Headphone Phantom]
required-any = any
state.plugged = unknown
state.unplugged = unknown

[Jack Front Headphone]
required-any = any

; HP EliteDesk 800 DM Headset
[Jack Front Headphone Front]
required-any = any

[Jack Front Headphone Phantom]
required-any = any
state.plugged = unknown
state.unplugged = unknown

[Jack Headphone]
required-any = any

[Jack Headphone Phantom]
required-any = any
state.plugged = unknown
state.unplugged = unknown

# This jack can be either a headphone *or* a mic. Used on some ASUS netbooks.
[Jack Headphone Mic]
required-any = any

[Jack Headphone - Output]
required-any = any

[Element Hardware Master]
switch = mute
volume = merge
override-map.1 = all
override-map.2 = all-left,all-right

[Element Master]
switch = mute
volume = merge
override-map.1 = all
override-map.2 = all-left,all-right

[Element Master Mono]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Speaker+LO]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Headphone+LO]
required-any = any
switch = mute
volume = merge
override-map.1 = all
override-map.2 = all-left,all-right

[Element Headphone]
required-any = any
switch = mute
volume = merge
override-map.1 = all
override-map.2 = all-left,all-right

; This path is intended to control the first headphones, not
; the second headphones. But it should not hurt if we leave the second
; headphone jack enabled nonetheless.
[Element Headphone,1]
switch = mute
volume = zero

[Element Headset]
required-any = any
switch = mute
volume = merge
override-map.1 = all
override-map.2 = all-left,all-right

[Element Line HP Swap]
switch = on
required-any = any

; This profile path is intended to control the first headphones, not
; the second headphones. But it should not hurt if we leave the second
; headphone jack enabled nonetheless.
[Element Headphone2]
switch = mute
volume = zero

[Element Speaker]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Desktop Speaker]
switch = off
volume = off

; On some machines, the Front Volume Control is shared by Headphone and Lineout,
; or Headphone and Speaker, but they have independent Volume Switch. Here only
; use switch to mute Lineout or Speaker.
[Element Front]
switch = off
volume = zero

[Element Rear]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Surround]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Side]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Center]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element LFE]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Bass Speaker]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Speaker Front]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Speaker Surround]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Speaker Side]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Speaker CLFE]
switch = off
volume = off

[Element Speaker Center/LFE]
switch = off
volume = off

.include analog-output.conf.common

[Robbyx]

I hope that I get a reply soon.

R

[1fallen2]

I use a script for that, unless your talking about simultaneously to both.
my script

if [[ $(pactl list | grep "Active Port: analog-output") == *"headphones"* ]]; then
    pactl set-sink-port 0 analog-output-speaker
else
    pactl set-sink-port 0 analog-output-headphones
fi

To find the correct findings use:

pactl list

To switch the default sink, you can use "pactl set-default-sink <sink_name>"

[Robbyx]

Thank you very much for your helpful reply:

[Robbyx]

How can I set up two devices to receive the sound? I use a desktop Voip app in a browser. If I do not use simultaneous output I think I will not realise calls are coming in to computer.

[1fallen2]

First I have no idea how this will work with your Voip app I've never used one.

First direct your sound to both:

pactl load-module module-combine-sink

You should control your audio through PAV

And I seem to remember It always defaulted to any incoming calls on my phone.

I'm curious how this will work with your Voip

[Robbyx]

When I entered your code it responded with 29.

My voip service rings on my phones, and also on my computer provided I have the browser open at my portal page at the voip service's web site. The sound in and out goes to my headset through the sound card, but because I need it to also go to the loud speakers on the desk I also need it to go through a the sound card.

The headset has one jack for both sound and mic.

The speakers also only have one jack.

Therefore two sockets are needed.