Sound Volume Setting At Login

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On 11/05/2013 11:39 AM, Weedy wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Tanu Kaskinen
> <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com <mailto:tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 16:57 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>     > On 10/25/2013 07:19 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>     > > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 19:23 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>     > >> On 10/12/2013 07:37 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>     > >>>
>     > >>> Hey all,
>     > >>>
>     > >>> When I log on my sound level is set at about 35%.  I have to
>     use the
>     > >>> sound preferences to turn the sound level up every time I log in.
>     > >>>
>     > >>> Other users on this same system do not have this issue.  When
>     they log
>     > >>> in their volume is set at 100%.
>     > >>>
>     > >>> This leads me to believe that there must be something in my local
>     > >>> settings that is turning down my sound volume settings.
>     > >>>
>     > >>> Does anyone have a clue were the config file might be that is
>     causing
>     > >>> this to happen to me and not to others?  Maybe it's not
>     located in my
>     > >>> home because I've searched for it but I've come up empty.
>     > >>>
>     > >>>
>     > >>
>     > >> It has occured to me that I didn't include any information about my
>     > >> system.  Maybe this will help one of you to find an answer to
>     my problem.
>     > >>
>     > >> CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
>     > >>
>     > >> Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28
>     14:27:42
>     > >> UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>     > >>
>     > >> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i pulse
>     > >> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> pulseaudio-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
>     > >> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$
>     > >
>     > > Wow, those are old versions of PulseAudio indeed. Don't suppose
>     you can
>     > > move to something newer?
>     > >
>     > > A few options:
>     > >
>     > > 1. Enable verbose logging (log-level = debug in
>     /etc/pulse/daemon.conf)
>     > > and see what is changing the volume
>     > >
>     > > 2. Wipe out ~/.pulse (which will remove all your settings) and
>     see if
>     > > that ?fixes? it
>     > >
>     > > -- Arun
>     > >
>     >
>     > I tried the possible solutions suggested by Arun but the effort
>     was not
>     > successful.
>     >
>     > I tried to give it a file in my home,
>     > log-target = /home/mlapier/.pulse/log,
>     > but it was not happy with that.  I left it at log-target = auto.
>      Where
>     > does the log file live?
> 
>     The "auto" target uses syslog, when pulseaudio is not run from an
>     interactive shell (otherwise "auto" uses stderr).
> 
>     Syslog has the problem that it ignores debug level messages (at least on
>     some systems, I'd guess it's the default behaviour). Syslog can probably
>     be configured to not ignore them, but I don't know how to do that.
> 
> 
> destination _syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); };
> filter f_syslog { not facility(authpriv, mail); };
> log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(_syslog); };

I guess that I don't have syslog running on my system because there is
no /var/log/syslog file on my system.  I'll have to see what it takes to
get it running.

Thanks for the tip.


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