Well, I would try looking in /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf to see if there is anything in there that is setting the volume. Also, try turning down the volume, then do alsactl restore and see if the volume jumps up again ( ie it is being stored in the alsa control-- /etc/asound.state) On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Dwight Paige wrote: > Don't know if this is best place to post about this... > > Also let me admit that I clearly don't know or understand enough about sound > issues in Linux. This post is to try to better pin down [with me learning in > the process]: > > 1. What is the cause of the problem? > > 2. What approach to take to correct it? > > In KDE 4.4.0 [Mandriva 2010.0 x86_64] and KDE 4.4.1 [Fedora 12 x86_64]. When > I log out and log back in or reboot when KDE starts sound volume levels jump > to painfully loud 100% in KMix and pavucontrol. Why is this? Is this a KDE, > pulseaudio, or alsa issue? As per example I believe that openSuSE 11.2 does > not use pulseaudio by default for KDE apps [it does for Gnome]. I can confirm > that this sound jumping to 100% on boot/login does not happen in My > openSuSE/KDE 4.4.1 partition. I checked and so far pulseaudio is not even > installed in my openSuSE/KDE 4.4.1. > > Work around is to disable or remove pulseaudio: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=237705&page=2 > > That doesn't necessarily mean that pulseaudio is at fault or does it? Could > this be a driver issue? > > Some info [using 'alsa-info.sh --no-upload' in Fedora 12 as example]: > > http://pastebin.ca/1836135 > > What steps could I take or information could I provide to get to the bottom > of this issue? > > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
