Actually I was wrong -- it's not necessary to log in, just switching to
a virtual terminal with Ctrl + Alt + Fx is enough to trigger this stupid
behavior.
How do you tell pulseaudio to stop doing this?
On 20/04/2020 00:23, Patrick May wrote:
I've now worked out exactly when it's happening.
When I log in at a virtual terminal (and I'm already logged in with
another session with pulseaudio daemon running), that's when pulseaudio
decides it's the right time to set my ALSA mixer volume to absolute 100%.
It seems to be a bit random though - it either sets it to 100% or 0%.
But it always does it one way or the other.
It also seems to happen when I log out at a virtual terminal.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
On 19/04/2020 17:52, Patrick May wrote:
Hello,
Pulseaudio seems to like to set my ALSA mixer settings to ABSOLUTE
COMPLETELY MAXED OUT VOLUME seemingly at random, it seems like it
happens usually when I reboot the computer but I'm not sure.
I guess it's happening when the pulseaudio daemon gets started.
This is resulting in REALLY LOUD sound getting blasted at me through
my headphones without warning and I'm sick of it.
Is there a way to tell the pulseaudio daemon or whatever to leave the
ALSA mixer settings as they are when it starts up?
By the way I already had to add "load-module module-alsa-sink
control=Master" to my default.pa file because for some reason, it
would either set the volume to ABSOLUTELY MAXED OUT LOUD or completely
muted (PCM set to 0) presumably because my soundcard (sound blaster
live emu10k1) is not well supported by pulseaudio.
thanks.
PM
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