I turn my volume down to “26” but when I restart the computer, it’s always at “61” (and VERY loud). How do I make it retain this? (It retained it in 12.3)
openSUSE 13.2
On Tue 05 May 2015 10:06:02 PM CDT, 6tr6tr wrote:
I turn my volume down to “26” but when I restart the computer, it’s
always at “61” (and VERY loud). How do I make it retain this? (It
retained it in 12.3)
openSUSE 13.2
Hi
Set via YaST -> Hardware -> Sound and select the ‘other’ button bottom
right and selec ‘volume’ and set the 'master slider.
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I suppose you are using KDE and PulseAudio?
PulseAudio’s default is “flat-volumes = yes”, which in effect means that if any application sets the volume to 100%, the overall volume will be set to 100% too.
So probably some application you start on login requests a volume of 100%.
There is a bug in phonon-backend-vlc that sets the volume to 100% on login, so don’t use that in combination with PulseAudio.
If you use gstreamer anyway, you should find out which app does it.
Setting “flat-volumes = no” in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf should prevent the problem in any case.
no, that’s not it. when I start up, the volume is always at “61%”. Not 100% or anything else. And I don’t need to start an app. It just defaults to 61%.
I did this and restarted and it still went back to 61%! What could be overriding it?
With Kmix’s VolumeOverdrive feature (which is enabled by default and allows to use PulseAudio’s feature to allow to crank the volume up to 150%), 100% volume will be shown as about 61% (or 67% exactly I think) in KMix.
So, what about my questions?
And again, if you use phonon-plugin-vlc, you don’t have to start any apps, KDE itself will raise the volume to 100% (or 67%/whatever as shown in KMix) on every login.
Another possible solution might be to delete ~/.config/pulse/ and/or ~/.pulse (if present). That will revert all volumes to the defaults.
To quote from an alsa developer:
[INDENT=2]if this happens after reboot, it could be the wrongly saved mixer state. There are a few layers saving/restoring the mixer state, alsactl invoked via udev, PulseAudio, and kmix.
A possible fix would be to clean up the config. Go to runlevel 3 once, login as root, kill all pending Pulse Audio processes (if any). Then adjust via “alsamixer -c0”, and run “alsactl store”. This resets the mixer restored via alsactl.
(As already noted in this thread) for Pulse Audio, remove ~/.pulse and ~/.config/pulse directories (if they exist).
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