On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 10:47 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> When I boot the system (Gentoo), "pacmd list-sinks" says:
>
> left: 65520 / 100% / -0.01 dB, right: 65520 / 100% / -0.01 dB
>
> I have to first apply a manual volume change (with pavucontrol or kmix)
> for it to get to 65536 (0dB.)
>
> I'm using PulseAudio 5.0 with software volume (hardware volume is not
> supported by PulseAudio for my sound card, which is an Asus Xonar D1.)
>
> There is no "restore volume at startup" business going on. This is how
> PA initializes the volume. Is this a known bug?
No, it's not known (or at least I don't remember a similar report). What
do you mean by there being no volume restoring going on? Have you
removed module-device-restore from the configuration, or do you mean
that there's no external program restoring the volume on boot?
Can you reproduce the bug with these steps:
1. Disable autospawning:
echo "autospawn = no" >> ~/.config/pulse/client.conf
2. Stop pulseaudio:
killall pulseaudio
3. Start pulseaudio in a terminal with verbose logging:
pulseaudio -vvv
4. Check the volume:
pactl list sinks
If you can reproduce the bug (i.e. the volume reported by pactl is not
0.00 dB), could you attach the log output?
--
Tanu
