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

[Chester Wisniewski]

I had similar issues on my machine. First I launched mixer and set 
everything the way I wanted, then I ran sudo alsactl store. Now the 
problem is gone.

Chester

On 09/08/2012 09:59 AM, Frank Wilson wrote:
>> According to Kyle:
>> > Apparently, Google is not my friend this time, as I can find no
>> > information about this problem, and I appear to be the only one
>> > experiencing it, and only on this machine.
>>
>>
>> Correction: I actually did find [1], and that appears to be my exact
>> problem, but it is also unsolved. Please help. Thanks.
>>
>> [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130201
>> ~Kyle
>
> Hi Kyle,
>
> I think I have also been having the same problems with pulseaudio on 
> Arch. Basically pulseaudio seems to
> mute and zero the master channel on my sound card (its a VirtualBox 
> machine) whenever it starts.
>
> I asked for help on the pulseaudio mailinglist back in June [1], but 
> nothing much came out of it.
>
> I then gave up for a bit, but have been meaning to raise a bug on it.
>
> So this weekend I did so [2,3].
>
> [1] 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2012-June/013710.html
> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31469
> [3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54673
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>