[pulseaudio-discuss] permanent microphone boost

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Piscium at 04/05/10 22:25 did gyre and gimble:
> I spent a bit of time on this issue, the ephemeral mic boost. I found
> out a way to consistently reproduce it: by rebooting.
> 
> In other words, if I enable mic boost with the Alsa mixer and reboot,
> the tick box is not checked anymore after booting. And this is true
> using both the gnome-alsamixer, as well as alsamixer, that comes in
> the Fedora alsa-utils package.
> 
> So the question remains, does anybody know if there any way to enable
> mic boost "permanently" in PulseAudio, or at least so that it
> survives a reboot?

I think I gave a detailed analysis in my last mail no?

The problem is that the option is not exposed through the PA layer to
the port selector.

Quite why that is I don't know but the solution is to get that fixed.
Hopefully, someone familiar with that bit of code can comment soon.

Col

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