[pulseaudio-discuss] Volume is not maxed on reboot; known bug?

[Raymond Yau]

>
> When I boot the system (Gentoo), "pacmd list-sinks" says:
>
>   left: 65520 / 100% / -0.01 dB, right: 65520 / 100% / -0.01 dB
>
> I have to first apply a manual volume change (with pavucontrol or kmix)
for it to get to 65536 (0dB.)
>
> I'm using PulseAudio 5.0 with software volume (hardware volume is not
supported by PulseAudio for my sound card, which is an Asus Xonar D1.)
>
> There is no "restore volume at startup" business going on. This is how PA
initializes the volume. Is this a known bug?
>

Pulseaudio does not support 8 channels volume control

W: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Volume element Master has 8 channels. That's
too much! I can't handle that!

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right - Rear Left - Rear Right -
Front Center - Woofer - Side Left - Side Right
  Limits: Playback 67 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
  Rear Left: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
  Rear Right: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
  Front Center: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
  Woofer: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
  Side Left: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
  Side Right: Playback 107 [67%] [-20.00dB] [on]
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