On Mon, 17.08.09 21:21, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > Hi, > > Mentioned this briefly on IRC, but for completeness I'll post it here. > > I performed this test a totally fresh user account, at the terminal with > no mixers or other users logged in + git master 8f928b (HEAD at time of > writing). > > The alsa Master and PCM values are initialised to sensible values during > initial boot. Let's say they PCM is 100% and Master is 60% for arguments > sake. > > When pulse first starts, it initialises the Master volume to 100% and as > such it's causing quite a few complaints. > > On subsequent loads pulse will restore the devices to what it remembered > last time. > > I don't think pulse should initialise the volume on first load, but > rather leave it as it finds it. Is it possible to make this change or > are there other reasons for doing this? PA is supposed to read the current mixer configuration if it doesn't know any. Does this happen on all cards? Could you do a diff -U 10 between "amixer -c0" before and after the startup please? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
