Hi, I have noticed that the master channel volume is set to zero and muted when I login to gnome3 on my arch linux vm. After looking at various things such as storing and restoring alsa settings, I determined the volume settings get changed when pulseaudio starts. To fully isolate the cause I did a test with a bare non-graphical login (no gnome session, no login manager, no other sound program). Here is the session log: [frank at flint ~]$ date Mon Jun 4 18:03:26 BST 2012 [frank at flint ~]$ alsactl init 0 # reset my card, just to be sure Found hardware: "ICH" "SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84" "AC97a:83847600" "0x8086" "0x0000" Hardware is initialized using a generic method [frank at flint ~]$ speaker-test <<<<< CAN HEAR SOUND >>>>> [frank at flint ~]$ amixer -c0 > amixer.org [frank at flint ~]$ pulseaudio --start -vvvvv I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup successful. [frank at flint ~]$ speaker-test <<<<< CANNOT HEAR SOUND! >>>> [frank at flint ~]$ amixer -c0 > amixer.pulse I attach amixer.org, amixer.pulse and pulse_syslog.log.gz (the relevant portion of my syslog file, where pulseaudio has logged its stuff). Could anybody explain what is causing the problem and how I should go about fixing it? Thanks, Frank -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: amixer.org Type: application/octet-stream Size: 5382 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20120604/b3568382/attachment-0002.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: amixer.pulse Type: application/octet-stream Size: 5380 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20120604/b3568382/attachment-0003.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pulse_syslog.log.gz Type: application/x-gzip Size: 12299 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20120604/b3568382/attachment-0001.bin>
