[pulseaudio-discuss] Sound initialised to 100% for new users == bleeding ears (Console Login)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 17.08.09 21:21, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mentioned this briefly on IRC, but for completeness I'll post it here.
>
> I performed this test a totally fresh user account, at the terminal with  
> no mixers or other users logged in + git master 8f928b (HEAD at time of  
> writing).
>
> The alsa Master and PCM values are initialised to sensible values during  
> initial boot. Let's say they PCM is 100% and Master is 60% for arguments  
> sake.
>
> When pulse first starts, it initialises the Master volume to 100% and as  
> such it's causing quite a few complaints.
>
> On subsequent loads pulse will restore the devices to what it remembered  
> last time.
>
> I don't think pulse should initialise the volume on first load, but  
> rather leave it as it finds it. Is it possible to make this change or  
> are there other reasons for doing this?

PA is supposed to read the current mixer configuration if it doesn't
know any.

Does this happen on all cards?

Could you do a diff -U 10 between "amixer -c0" before and after the
startup please?

Lennart

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