[pulseaudio-discuss] Sound Volume Setting At Login

[Arun Raghavan]

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