On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 14:37 +0100, Mark Caglienzi wrote: > On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 21:50 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > Not all symptoms point to it, but one known source of volume resets is > > that both your regular user and gdm run their own pulseaudio daemons, > > and plugging in and unplugging headphones causes interference between > > the two. If you kill the pulseaudio process that gdm created, do things > > get better? Note that once you kill the process, gdm will respawn a new > > daemon instance, but that's ok, because it won't be able to access the > > mixer as long as you keep your login session active. > > Thanks for the reply, but I don't use gdm on my system. > My machine is a Debian testing (stretch, at the moment) installation, > with fluxbox as window manager and lightdm as graphical login manager. When you are logged in, does "ps aux" show multiple pulseaudio instances running? Maybe lightdm works similarly to gdm. --Â Tanu
