<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">>Why would you want to adjust these settings outside of pulseaudio and
>in what way do the sliders in pavucontrol not suffice?</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">I don't see any way how to adjust PCM which by default is set to 100 by pulseaudio. Hence, I must use alsamixer to reduce the distortions caused by the high PCM.</pre>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">>Then your distro is broken.
</pre></span>Following Maartens response it is not, and overwriting alsa settings is a normal behaviour of pulse.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br>
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>The alsa-utils packages ensures that alsa mixer values are saved on</span><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">
>shutdown and restored at boot up. It's saved in asound.state which is
>kept in /var (nowadays).
>The latest alsa-utils even ships with systemd units to do this for you.
>Prior to standardisation with systemd, various different distros handled
>this differently so you'll have to ask your distro people about it.
>Ultimately tho', if you fire up an alsa mixer and make some changes, and
>run: "sudo alsactl store", it should wirte the file
>/var/lib/alsa/asound.state. Similarly "sudo alsactl restore" should read
>that state file and apply it.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">Of course I can run alsactl restore after pulseaudio had completely started. But this is only a workaround since it is obviously not indented to overwrite pulse settings.</pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">Regards</pre></span><div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/19 Robert Orzanna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orschiro@googlemail.com">orschiro@googlemail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello, <div><br></div><div>With the new version of pulse (1.0-4) I hoped that pulse will somehow take care of my alsa settings which still is not the case. </div><div><br></div><div>All settings, for example set with alsamixer, are discarded after reboot. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Now I wonder what's the best way to define some settings such as mic and PCM level with pulse when pavucontrol does not offer such possibilities?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div>
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