'Twas brillig, and poort at 15/02/10 14:32 did gyre and gimble: > On multi-user computers, some users set the volume to zero as they leave the > computer.The next user that is loggin in on the computer does not know the > the volume is muted and gets no sound. > How can I set the volume to maximum at login for the default sink of this > user, or better set the volume to max at boot(or with gdm login or rc.local) > for all output sinks? This will be solved when http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/572 is fully resolved. Effectively the following will happen: 1. Brand new installation + new user accounts. 2. Machine boots and initial volume is set for the ALSA hardware during boot. 3. GDM fires up and as it's a new user account it inherits the volume from ALSA and saves it in it's own user-specific volume settings database. 4. A real user logs in, and also inherits initial volume from ALSA. 5. User sets volume to 0 and logs out. 6. GDM's PA fires up again and restores the volume to it's saved value form 3. 7. A new user logs in and inherits the value from ALSA which has been restored by GDM to the initial value. 8. User logs out and the first user from 4 logs in again. 9. User's saved volume (0) is restored. So once that is fixed everything will flow and work correctly from there. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
