I have asus chromebox which I installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 on.
When I connect headphones, I can see them in the volume control application, but they are not switched to automatically, when I select the headphones in the volume control app, i can hear just fine. When I disconnect the headphones the sound goes back to HDMI.
I have tried to change alsa-base.conf and everything else I could find online. Couldn't find a way to set it as default in pavucontrol (even when I set it as default here, it doesn't change anything) or alsamixer. Here is all the info I could find from my chromebox that might help.
Anyone has any ideas?