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Title:
18.04 Sound Through hdmi
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/2018/07/07/18.04-Sound-Through-hdmi
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July 7, 2018
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Simple Solution
When signal is lost to HDMI (during sleep) Pulse Audio is automatically configured to active source (your laptop’s speakers). Upon resume the sound device is still your laptop. To override this setting, tell Pulse Audio to never switch sound devices automatically:
- edit the file
/etc/pulse/default.pa - find the line
load-module module-switch-on-port-available - insert a
#at the beginning of the line to disable automatic port switching - save the file and reboot.
Complex Solution
Before I learned of the simple solution, I used a more complex solution based on systemd suspend/resume hook:
An even more complex solution for when HDMI TV is unplugged and replugged is based on udev rule:
Extensive Forum Thread
In Linux Mint forum there is an extensive thee page thread on this topic: