[pulseaudio-discuss] Sound initialised to 0% for new users == silence (Graphical Gnome Login)

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/08/09 21:52 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> Similar to my last mail but the opposite behaviour is noticed here!
> 
> This could easily be a g-s-d or a g-v-c-a problem, but I'm not sure how
> these ones work internally so opinions welcome. I do however suspect
> that it's a result of the first play of a role without a stored volume 
> rule - could be wrong tho'. I tried to verify this via canberra-gtk-play 
> +console, but it needs X... I've not yet tried some PULSE_PROP style env 
> var hacking.
> 
> I performed this test a totally fresh user account, at GDM with other 
> users logged in + git master 8f928b (HEAD at time of writing).
> 
> After logging in g-v-c-a is showing the mute symbol despite the 
> underlying alsa mixer having been previously confirmed ot having a 
> sensible value (although with current pulse I'd suspect a 100% 
> initialisation anyway - even if that is not desirable!)
> 
> The following behaviour can now be observed:
> 
> 1. pavucontrol/g-v-c both show all sliders as 0 including the "system 
> sounds" slider.
> 
> 2. Running paplay does not restore the volume (so it's silent).
> 
> 3. Setting the device volume in either pavucontrol or g-v-c allows a 
> paplay to run and be heard. paplay can be run multiple times without a 
> problem.
> 
> 4. Running canberra-gtk-play -i menu-click (for example) will turn the 
> device volume down again. paplay is then on silent (the canberra sound 
> could also be triggered organically via (duh!) clicking on a menu).
> 
> 
> So there seems to be two problems here:
> 
> 1. Problem with "system sounds" volume being initialised to 0 at first 
> login (perhaps due to g-v-c-a/g-s-d or perhaps due to the canberra 
> played login sound?)
> 2. The fact that a "system sounds" volume of 0 changes the system 
> volume. It should be completely separate from it. I suspect it is 
> interfering with the flat volume logic in some capacity.
> 
> 
> I hope I've written up these two problems clearly.
> 
> I've got some Mandriva bug references but I doubt they will add to this 
> at present.

Slight follow up on this one too.

Seems the rework helped here. The device volume is now initialised to 
whatever the underlying device's volume is (for a fresh user's first 
graphical login).

The system sounds slider is still set to 0 but at least other sounds 
work OOTB. I still think this could be a bug tho', but not nearly as 
serious now.


Col

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