Hello, this is a follow up to my previous thread. I'm using pulseaudio in system mode. It basically works fine, besides that the state is not restored. So I need to login and unmute the device after each boot. The device is an Asus Xonar PCIe card. Currently, for debugging I start pulseaudio manually after boot using the service file [Service] Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --system --realtime --disallow-module-loading --disallow-exit --log-target=journal --log-level=debug I also changed the home directory of the pulse user from /var/run/pulse to /var/lib/pulse, to check if there are issues with an home that is cleared on each boot (what happens to /var/run/ afaik) The distribution is Arch, pulseaudio is on 9.0. Restore modules are loaded: # grep load-module /etc/pulse/system.pa load-module module-udev-detect load-module module-detect load-module module-esound-protocol-unix load-module module-native-protocol-unix load-module module-default-device-restore load-module module-stream-restore load-module module-device-restore load-module module-card-restore load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=true load-module module-zeroconf-publish load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-always-sink load-module module-suspend-on-idle load-module module-position-event-sounds The log output is attached or at http://pastebin.com/AxJBCqAz After I unmute the device, a restart pulseaudio.service does not mute it again. It only happens at a system reboot. Is there a way to use pacmd or alike to connect to the system daemon and unmute the device? Currently I login and use pavucontrol. Anyone any ideas? THANKS! Florian -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pulseaudio.log Type: text/x-log Size: 411511 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20161015/56cd3385/attachment-0001.bin>