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On 12/29/2016 03:21 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since |
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> pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. |
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I had many similar issues years ago. I solved them by doing the following: |
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In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, I've set: |
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flat-volumes = no |
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In /etc/pulse/default.pa, comment-out these entries: |
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#load-module module-device-restore |
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#load-module module-stream-restore |
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#load-module module-card-restore |
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Add the "alsasound" service to "boot" runlevel: |
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rc-config add alsasound boot |
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In /etc/conf.d/alsasound, set: |
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RESTORE_ON_START="yes" |
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SAVE_ON_STOP="yes" |
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Stop the alsasound service: |
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/etc/init.d/alsasound stop |
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Delete the currently saved mixer settings: |
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rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state |
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Use alsamixer to configure your sound card to your liking (hit F6 first |
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and select the real device.) |
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Start the alsasound service: |
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/etc/init.d/alsasound start |
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Stop it again to save the current mixer settings: |
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/etc/init.d/alsasound stop |
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Change /etc/conf.d/alsasound to: |
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SAVE_ON_STOP="no" |
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You're done. Reboot to check if everything is working as intended. |
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What the above does is make PA not restore its own settings on boot, |
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make ALSA restore your preferred settings on boot but not save |
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alterations on shutdown (next reboot will restore your initial |
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settings.) It also disables the "flat volumes" feature of PA, which for |
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me at least resulted in many "RIP my ears" moments, and also makes the |
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volume mixer (KMix and pavucontrol in my case) behave very weirdly (it |
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seems I need to get a PhD from MIT first to figure out what the volume |
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settings do when "flat volumes" is on.) |
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Note that the above is only done once. Do it, and reboot. After that it |
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should work forever. When upgrading PA or ALSA, make sure to not |
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overwrite your custom /etc/ settings when running "dispatch-conf" or |
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"etc-update" (or whatever you're using.) |
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Hope this helps. |
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