pulseaudio unmutes IEC958 Optical every time it is started which has the effect of muting analogue output from SB Audigy2 Value. (I have onboard Intel hda sound + SB Audigy PCI card). Attached is a patch to analog-output.conf.common taken from: pulseaudio-0.9.20/debian/patches/0054-mute-iec958-optical-raw-for-audigyX.patch which fixes this for me with pulseaudio-0.9.20 and pulseaudio-0.9.21
Created attachment 211098 [details, diff] patch analog-output.conf.common
Could you please submit this patch upstream asap so we can try to get this in before 0.9.23 goes out?
I am not using that card any more, and better still have removed PulseAudio. It does seem like it was reported as part of: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/699 but that just got the response: 'PA does not fiddle with "S/PDIF Optical Raw"'