After booting on an 11.4 machine with kde4.6, I need to go to alsamixer and adjust the master volume. But somehow, this is not remembered when shutting down.
Is there a way to make this “stick”
If you install pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol) and adjust the audio level there, is it retained?
Pavucontrol stays the same. Just yast, hardware, sound, other, volume, master front drops down to zero
So you upgraded to KDE 4.6.2? I have 4.6.0 on standard 11.4, so did you have the problem on 4.6.0? Are you running KMix (volume icon in system tray), and if so does it display the four tabs for devices and streams i.e. for PulseAudio support?
Sorry about the delay in replying. I have kde 4.6.0
Kmix playback devices has only one slider showing “internal audio analog stereo”
The sound has never started correctly on this box.There was ati radeon device, but I have disabled it now
To be clear, How many tabs (with or without sliders on the tab) does your KMix have? So far you confirmed only one “playback devices” tab.
Please confirm whether or not PulseAudio Configuration is enabled by checkbox in YaST>Hardware>Sound>Other.
Also please confirm that you have a “Speaker Setup” tab showing at KDE (System) Settings>Multimedia>Phonon. Also on the Phonon panel in the right-hand pane you should have only one Output Device listed for your main audio card/chip, e.g mine says “Internal Audio Analog Stereo”, there may be others greyed out.
It should all be that way for proper P/A support to be there.
consused wrote:
>
> Alastairo;2443879 Wrote:
>> Sorry about the delay in replying. I have kde 4.6.0
>> Kmix playback devices has only one slider showing “internal audio
>> analog stereo”
>> The sound has never started correctly on this box.There was ati radeon
>> device, but I have disabled it now
> To be clear, How many tabs (with or without sliders on the tab) does
> your KMix have? So far you confirmed only one “playback devices” tab.
>
> Please confirm whether or not PulseAudio Configuration is enabled by
> checkbox in YaST>Hardware>Sound>Other.
>
> Also please confirm that you have a “Speaker Setup” tab showing at KDE
> (System) Settings>Multimedia>Phonon. Also on the Phonon panel in the
> right-hand pane you should have only one Output Device listed for your
> main audio card, e.g mine says “Internal Audio Analog Stereo”, there may
> be others greyed out.
>
> It should all be that way for proper P/A support to be there.
>
>
I am having a similar problem with sound on 12.1 since recent updates to
KDE 4.8.0. I checked all of above and they all work if I un mute Kmix
after every boot or some other event that turns the mute on. If I right
click the mute on the task bar it unmutes it and sound works. Next boot
its muted again. Or sometimes it is muted by something else. It doesnot
mater which backend I select for Phonon. I have xine, vlc and gstreamer.
I have VLC set as perferred.
Russ
openSUSE 12.1(3.1.9-1.4-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform Version
4.8.00 (4.8.0 “release 2”|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce
8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-290.10-13.1.x86_64)
Hi Russ
I don’t have that “muted sound after booting” problem on 12.1, but I don’t have KDE 4.8 either. However I do have it on 11.3 with KDE, but it’s an old system updated from 11.2, and I don’t use it very often so haven’t bothered to investigate. IIRC that was a fairly common issue at that time (probably 11.2), following installation and subsequent reboots but not by “something else” in my case.
In kmix settings configure kmix
Try to uncheck “restore volume on login”
Problem Solved - Thanks conram !
No problem. It’s a bug.
Is it a bug for the few? If that box is checked and a muted volume is set at installation, that’s what you get on every reboot. It is checked on my 11.4/KDE 4.6.0 and the correct [installation default] volume is always restored on reboot.
Is it a bug for the few? If that box is checked and a muted volume is set at installation, that’s what you get on every reboot. It is checked on my 11.4/KDE 4.6.0 and the correct [installation default] volume is always restored on reboot.
I said a bug because I recalled seeing it reported before.:
If it no longer exist my apologies.
Ok, I was wondering if you were suggesting the bug is with the setting of the KMix checkbox or with the post installation muting of the volume [in some situations]?