>> >> Do you mean mic capture volume always reset to maximum by driver or pulseaudio ? > > No >> >> pactl list sources > > http://pastebin.com/Dd0XLamN Seem usb audio is not your default source Refer to pact list sources in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90781#c32 Ð?оÑ?Ñ?и: analog-input-mic: Ð?Ñ?кÑ?оÑ?он (priority: 8700) analog-input-linein: Ð?Ñ?нÑ?йний вÑ?Ñ?д (priority: 8100) Ð?кÑ?ивний поÑ?Ñ?: analog-input-linein The active port is linein , pulseaudio does not use the source in alsa pcm capture source control as active ports when there are no jack detection control. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/modules/alsa/mixer/paths/analog-input.conf.common ; ; We explicitly don't want to wrap the following sources: ; ; CD ; Synth/MIDI ; Phone ; Mix ; Digital/SPDIF ; Master ; PC Speaker http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___simple_mixer.html#ga6679dc52033e29b88da32f5bbd45f205 To achieve the above logic, it does not use snd_mixer_selem_get_enum_item() in alsa-mixer.c to get the current selected enumerated item for the given mixer simple element to set the active port linein is the default port when there are no jack detection kctl in current implementation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20150624/e809c7b0/attachment.html>