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

[Colin Guthrie]

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.


Col
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