Rawhide: sound level resets to 0% each login...

[Tom London]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:53 -0700, Tom London wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Tom London<selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Here is /etc/asound.state after login (sound level 0%).  It doesn't
>> >> change when I adjust the sound level to 81%.
>> >
>> > Sorry, I forgot to do the "alsactl store" after adjusting the sound level:
>> >
>> > [tbl at tlondon ~]$ diff asound*
>> > 74,75c74,75
>> > <               value.0 55
>> > <               value.1 55
>> > ---
>> >>               value.0 58
>> >>               value.1 58
>> > [tbl at tlondon ~]$
>>
>> After changing the values in /etc/asound.state per above, and then
>> logging out and logging back in again, I still get volume at 0%.
>
> That's significant - logging out then in shouldn't really cause any
> change to your volume at all, AFAIK. That sounds perhaps like
> PulseAudio's doing it, since it gets restarted at session start...does
> it happen if you kill the running pulseaudio, and then start it again?
>
No, I did:

[tbl at tlondon ~]$ pulseaudio --kill
[tbl at tlondon ~]$ pulseaudio --start
[tbl at tlondon ~]$

And saw no effect: volume level repained at 100%

tom
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Tom London