[arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

[Rodrigo Rivas]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Kyle <kyle at gmx.ca> wrote:

> According to Rodrigo Rivas:
>
>  Have you tried running "alsamixer -D hw" and see if there are any muted
>> channels in your hardware?
>>
>
> Master is at 87% normally. Once GDM runs, it zeros out and mutes. Also,
> once pulseaudio starts, the Master channel zeros out and mutes.
>
>
> Also, once I had a similar problem and solved it by simply deleting the
> files at ~/.pulse/*.tdb
>
> Unfortunately this is also not working. I even tried deleting the entire
> ~/.pulse directory with no luck. Thanks for the help.
> ~Kyle
>

One last idea. Maybe the gnome-settings-daemon is playing dumb with your
sound. I think you can disable the sound plugin of g-s-d using dconf
(org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.sound.active).

I don't know if that will affect also to the GDM greeter, but it is worth
trying it.

As a last resort you could also try renaming
"/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libsound.so" and see what happens.
--
Rodrigo