[Bug 1951667] Re: [SRU] pulseaudio: restore hdmi audio be active output after resume

[Chris Halse Rogers]

Hello Hui, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pulseaudio into focal-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.13 in
a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

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Title:
  [SRU] pulseaudio: restore hdmi audio be active output after resume

Status in HWE Next:
  New
Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in pulseaudio source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in pulseaudio source package in Hirsute:
  Won't Fix
Status in pulseaudio source package in Impish:
  Fix Committed
Status in pulseaudio source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  On the machines with legacy HDA audio driver, when users plug a hdmi/dp monitor, the active output device is still speaker, need users to manually select the hdmi, then the hdmi audio will be the users' preference, once it is plugged, it should become the active output automatically. But with the current PA, after reboot and suspend/resume, the hdmi can't change to be active output automatically anymore.

  [Fix]
  Backport an upstream fix, this will fix the issue of "preferred ports being cleaned by a mistake"

  [Test]
  On a machine with legacy HDA audio driver, install the patched pulseaudio, then run 'rm ~/.config/pulse/*; reboot', plug a hdmi monitor, select the hdmi audio to be active, with the hdmi monitor plugged and reboot, suspend and resume, check what is the active output, it is still the hdmi audio.

  [Where problems could occur]
  This patch is in the card-restore.c, if it could introduce regression, it will be on the default active input/output devices, for example, users select a input or output device to be active, after reboot, if those devices are available, they should be active, but they could be replaced by other devices if a regression is introduced. But this possibility is very low since we tested the patch on a couple of desktop and laptop machines.

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