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Hi!

First, situation info:

Hardware:

Audio: VIA HD audio (VT1708S) on motherboard
Also, Nvidia HDMI audio, disabled for now, not used.

Speakers connected to back analog connector (audio jack)
Headphones connected to front analog connector
Mic connected to front analog connector

Distribution: Mageia 5 x64 (mostly) clean. Pulse audio enabled by default.

In Pulse audio mixer:

- Configuration:
Built-in audio set to Analog Stereo Duplex

The only choice with sound working AND microphone available

- Output devices
I have choice "Headphones" or "Line out"

But regardless of chosen device, I have same sound both in speakers and headphone.

Question:
How to split audio device in two - it works with manufacturer's win drivers and software, it worked, damn cannot remember, either in Mandriva 2010.2 or Mageia 1 or 2. Now I cannot remember, how I done that. I suspect, that I killed Pulse audio that time (it was unpopular back then), but now I reluctant to do so.

You mean like this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu ... ont.2Frear

But in general if they are recognised as different outputs should be possible by default via your desktop environments mixer, or e.g. via pavucontrol.

Thanks for your answer!

I think it's more of some hidden switch "Re-task front panel" then real channel remapping.
I switched PA to "7.1+input" and headphones (front) and speakers (back) are still the some "Left" and "Right" channels.

More info:
My motherboard:
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A77 ... fications/

btw, pacmd command sometimes report that daemon do not respond - ie PA crashing at random. Looks like system is falling back to ALSA-only, and mixer starts to look different.

May be it's still a good idea to ditch PA and fall back for ALSA?

Some command outputs, that might help: