[pulseaudio-discuss] Sound Volume Setting At Login

[Weedy]

On 5 Nov 2013 22:48, "Mark LaPierre" <marklapier at aol.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/05/2013 11:39 AM, Weedy wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Tanu Kaskinen
> > <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com <mailto:tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 16:57 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> >     > On 10/25/2013 07:19 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> >     > > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 19:23 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> >     > >> On 10/12/2013 07:37 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> >     > >>>
> >     > >>> Hey all,
> >     > >>>
> >     > >>> When I log on my sound level is set at about 35%.  I have to
> >     use the
> >     > >>> sound preferences to turn the sound level up every time I log
in.
> >     > >>>
> >     > >>> Other users on this same system do not have this issue.  When
> >     they log
> >     > >>> in their volume is set at 100%.
> >     > >>>
> >     > >>> This leads me to believe that there must be something in my
local
> >     > >>> settings that is turning down my sound volume settings.
> >     > >>>
> >     > >>> Does anyone have a clue were the config file might be that is
> >     causing
> >     > >>> this to happen to me and not to others?  Maybe it's not
> >     located in my
> >     > >>> home because I've searched for it but I've come up empty.
> >     > >>>
> >     > >>>
> >     > >>
> >     > >> It has occured to me that I didn't include any information
about my
> >     > >> system.  Maybe this will help one of you to find an answer to
> >     my problem.
> >     > >>
> >     > >> CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
> >     > >>
> >     > >> Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28
> >     14:27:42
> >     > >> UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >     > >>
> >     > >> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i pulse
> >     > >> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> pulseaudio-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> >     > >> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$
> >     > >
> >     > > Wow, those are old versions of PulseAudio indeed. Don't suppose
> >     you can
> >     > > move to something newer?
> >     > >
> >     > > A few options:
> >     > >
> >     > > 1. Enable verbose logging (log-level = debug in
> >     /etc/pulse/daemon.conf)
> >     > > and see what is changing the volume
> >     > >
> >     > > 2. Wipe out ~/.pulse (which will remove all your settings) and
> >     see if
> >     > > that “fixes” it
> >     > >
> >     > > -- Arun
> >     > >
> >     >
> >     > I tried the possible solutions suggested by Arun but the effort
> >     was not
> >     > successful.
> >     >
> >     > I tried to give it a file in my home,
> >     > log-target = /home/mlapier/.pulse/log,
> >     > but it was not happy with that.  I left it at log-target = auto.
> >      Where
> >     > does the log file live?
> >
> >     The "auto" target uses syslog, when pulseaudio is not run from an
> >     interactive shell (otherwise "auto" uses stderr).
> >
> >     Syslog has the problem that it ignores debug level messages (at
least on
> >     some systems, I'd guess it's the default behaviour). Syslog can
probably
> >     be configured to not ignore them, but I don't know how to do that.
> >
> >
> > destination _syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); };
> > filter f_syslog { not facility(authpriv, mail); };
> > log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(_syslog); };
>
> I guess that I don't have syslog running on my system because there is
> no /var/log/syslog file on my system.  I'll have to see what it takes to
> get it running.
>
> Thanks for the tip.

Wat?
I can't think of a distro that doesn't ship logging. You sure it's not just
off? Anything in init.d/ have syslog in the name?
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