I had hoped this would get fixed with one of the latest updates, but I'm at plasma 5.21 and still no change.
Almost every time I boot up or log in, System Settings looses my sound output settings. I say almost because once in a blue moon it gets it right, accidentally apparently. I have two monitors connected to a five-port Radeon RX580. Thank goodness it no longer lists ALL the ports in Audio Configure like it used to - only the active ones.
Monitor 1 is connected to DP-3 and monitor 2 to HDMI-A-0. Audio Settings list these as "Ellesmere HDMI Audio", HDMI 5 for DP-3 and HDMI 4 for HDMI-A-0. There is also Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958) on the mobo. I also have "Add virtual output device..." and "Automatically switch all running..." checked.
The odd renaming convention is strange and confusing enough but to make matters worse, it always starts up setting Playback Devices to HDMI-4 - the monitor without speakers - AND sets the primary sound output to the Built-in Audio which also has no speaker connection. I used to use the built-in audio for wireless headphones but they died a couple years ago I and I haven't bothered to replace them as I have a bluetooth set now. I set the output to the Simultaneous virtual device.
99% of the time when I restart the computer I have to open System Settings and change HDMI-4 to HDMI-5, then select the "Simultaneous..." output instead of the Built-In audio. Even when works 1% of the time, it still has changed my settings by selecting HDMI-5 instead of Simultaneous output. It's extremely maddening.
I want to just give up on it like I finally had to with kscreen (total junk - never once got my monitor config right on multiple computers) and override the settings with a script at log in, but I don't know if there's even a way to do that. Xrandr is easily used to override kscreen but what do I use to set audio streams?
Almost every time I boot up or log in, System Settings looses my sound output settings. I say almost because once in a blue moon it gets it right, accidentally apparently. I have two monitors connected to a five-port Radeon RX580. Thank goodness it no longer lists ALL the ports in Audio Configure like it used to - only the active ones.
Monitor 1 is connected to DP-3 and monitor 2 to HDMI-A-0. Audio Settings list these as "Ellesmere HDMI Audio", HDMI 5 for DP-3 and HDMI 4 for HDMI-A-0. There is also Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958) on the mobo. I also have "Add virtual output device..." and "Automatically switch all running..." checked.
The odd renaming convention is strange and confusing enough but to make matters worse, it always starts up setting Playback Devices to HDMI-4 - the monitor without speakers - AND sets the primary sound output to the Built-in Audio which also has no speaker connection. I used to use the built-in audio for wireless headphones but they died a couple years ago I and I haven't bothered to replace them as I have a bluetooth set now. I set the output to the Simultaneous virtual device.
99% of the time when I restart the computer I have to open System Settings and change HDMI-4 to HDMI-5, then select the "Simultaneous..." output instead of the Built-In audio. Even when works 1% of the time, it still has changed my settings by selecting HDMI-5 instead of Simultaneous output. It's extremely maddening.
I want to just give up on it like I finally had to with kscreen (total junk - never once got my monitor config right on multiple computers) and override the settings with a script at log in, but I don't know if there's even a way to do that. Xrandr is easily used to override kscreen but what do I use to set audio streams?
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