[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 54673] master volume at zero and muted when pulseaudio starts

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54673

--- Comment #8 from Frank Wilson <fajwilson at gmail.com> 2012-09-10 19:11:24 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> If by "this" you mean that the Master element has two channels

Yes that is what I meant.

> What may or may not be a bug is that the Master Mono element has
two channels too

Yes that does sound a little weird.

> What I'd like you to do is to test the change in extra-hdmi.conf that I
> suggested.

I did try this the result where in my reply to comment #3:

>> (In reply to comment #3)
>> I tried this after deleting my ~/.pulse dir (I am not sure if that was
>> necessary, I guess I just assumed it was). Now gnome session starts up muted
>> but this time you can actually see a muted speaker symbol in the notification
>> area. Then it is simply a matter of raising the volume with the basic volume
>> control in the notification area. The settings seem to be automatically
>> recovered when I reboot and login again.

> If it fixes the problem, then I can write a patch, and hopefully
> this problem won't bug people any more.

I guess your "extra-hdmi" fix improves matters but there are still a few
issues. With the default settings the speaker-test program still produces no
audible sound. The master channel is *still* muted and zeroed. However, the
gnome3 volume control applet also shows muted and "very low". So the level can
be corrected easily by a regular user. If I look in alsamixer on card0 the
master channel is still zeroed and muted while the master mono is maxed and
unmuted.

I think I'd prefer the volume to default to maxed and unmuted on the master
channel by default.

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