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On 11/06/2013 03:05 PM, Weedy wrote:
> 
> On 5 Nov 2013 22:48, "Mark LaPierre" <marklapier at aol.com
> <mailto:marklapier at aol.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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>
> <mailto: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.
> 
> Wat?
> I can't think of a distro that doesn't ship logging. You sure it's not
> just off? Anything in init.d/ have syslog in the name?
> 
> 

I've got:
Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, among others,
MySQL, syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any
message part, and fine grain output format control.

I guess I've got some research to do.

I'm running:
CentOS release 6.4 (Final)

Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 16 17:21:31
UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux



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