On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > timo wrote: >> I'm using version 0.9.10, on Ubuntu 8.10 >> >> I have module-volume-restore enabled in the config, but it doesn't stop the >> reverting behaviour. Even hitting stop and then play on the streaming >> application is enough to have the stream reverted to the default sink. >> >> I had noticed module-stream-restore was introduced in 0.9.11, but i figured >> this sort of feature would have existed in earlier versions as well. > > Hmm, well it works on Mandriva with 0.9.10 so I'm not sure why it's > causing issues for you. I don't think I did anything in particular to > fix a problem in this regard (there was an issue relating to it > remembering the default device across reboots (as this is stored in > gconf), but this shouldn't affect individual application-device maps as > this is stored in a file in your home directory. > > Make sure your user has the ability to write in your ~/.pulse folder and > particularly the volume restore table file. Double check that this > folder is not owned by root or something silly like that (ll -d > ~/.pulse; ll ~/.pulse) > > And just to double check, you are running a per-user daemon right? Not a > system wide one? A-ha, that's a good point. It turns out that by default, Ubuntu runs pulseaudio with the --system option, which means the volume and sink settings are not saved per-user. Thanks for the hint, it's working fine now.
