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

[mike cloaked]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

>> while the volume was at the proper level. At this point, I am totally
>> stumped. The computer I had that died used a SoundBlaster Live Value, and
>> although the sound started out muted, restoring the alsa volumes always
>> worked as expected. However, on this machine with the Intel onboard sound,
>> nothing seems to keep the volumes from muting whenever GNOMe and GDM start.
>> ~Kyle
>
> Did you also do "systemctl enable alsa-store"? "enable" means it
> should be set to "start" on boot.
>
> Immediately after you have booted try "systemctl status alsa-store" -
> it should show it as running. If not then try the "enable" command
> above.
>

Actually thinking about it whilst the "systemctl start alsa-store"
command should work to start the service if it is not running after
boot, you will likely need "systemctl enable alsa-store.service" to
start it at boot as the short form only works for starting and
stopping the service at present.

-- 
mike c