(Though I guess that was more of a danger when it was in active development, now it seems like it’s in a holding beat me to the pavucontrol suggestion, as that would’ve been my first instinct as well. It may be possible to do it that way, but it’s likely that it’ll mess something up for PulseAudio, or that PulseAudio will mess you up at some point in the future. I highly doubt that ALSA is where you want to fiddle with this. I think it should be possible to separate outputs somehow for alsa but I haven’t found a way to do it. Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl, sof_pci_dev Lspci: Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10) The same behavior on my work computer with Realtek ® ALC887 8-channel high definition audio CODEC*Īplay - PCH, device 0: ALC887-VD Analog Whereas lspci shows Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) Manual says it’s Realtek ® ALC892 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC.Īplay -l shows it as card 0: PCH, device 0: ALC892 Analog I use desktop computer with Asus motherboard’s integrated audio. I do use a rather crude workaround for this with alsamixer – but it’s rather clumsy and switches between outputting sound to both devices simultaneously or headphones only – not an elegant solution. I’ve searched for solution for some time but couldn’t find anything good. I think I’ve seen them as separate devices on older (not recent) versions of Fedora as well but I can be mistaken here.

I have to say that Windows does show speakers and headphones as separate output devices and allows switching between them easily – so I’m quite sure the same can be achieved in Linux. I know that sound output switching works ok when I physically remove/connect my headphones, but is there a way to achieve the same without unlugging anything?

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