Bug#1106198: pipewire keeps changing volume of output device
From
Jonathan Kamens@21:1/5 to
All on Wed May 21 03:00:01 2025
Package: pipewire
Version: 1.4.2-1
Severity: normal
Every time I unplug my DisplayLink hub from my main desktop, pipewire
changes the volume of my built-in audio device:
id 52, type PipeWire:Interface:Device/3
object.serial = "53"
factory.id = "15"
client.id = "47"
device.api = "alsa"
device.description = "Built-in Audio"
device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3"
device.nick = "HDA Intel PCH"
media.class = "Audio/Device"
Just to be clear, *this is not a device plugged into the DisplayLink
hub*, it's built into my motherboard.
This is new behavior. It's incredibly annoying.
Why this matters: I have the output volume of this device muted nearly
all the time. When I unplug my DisplayLink hub to plug it into and
user a different computer, I don't want apps on my main desktop to
make noise, but they start making noise as soon as I unplug the hub,
because pipewire messes with the volume.
It didn't always do this, this seems to have broken relatively
recently.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages pipewire depends on:
ii adduser 3.152
ii init-system-helpers 1.68
ii libpipewire-0.3-modules 1.4.2-1
ii pipewire-bin 1.4.2-1
pipewire recommends no packages.
pipewire suggests no packages.
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