> alsamixer doesn't fire up any puls daemon. Please check whether > puls is running before starting alsamixer.
It should not, but it certainly does: juhaj@meissa 18:07:16 ~> ps -flyu juhaj|grep pulseau S juhaj 9740 9724 0 99 19 2204 3488 - 18:07 pts/4 00:00:00 grep pulseau Today is 20.11.2016, I am running on tty 4 and currently controlling 0 jobs juhaj@meissa 18:07:31 ~> alsamixer -c0 /usr/bin/pulseaudio: line 3: /var/log/mpd/mpd.runs.pulseaudio.at: Permission denied W: [pulseaudio.real] main.c: /proc/self/exe does not point to /usr/bin/ pulseaudio, cannot self execute. Are you playing games? Today is 20.11.2016, I am running on tty 4 and currently controlling 0 jobs juhaj@meissa 18:07:39 ~> ps -flyu juhaj|grep pulseau S juhaj 9746 1 7 69 -11 10840 166267 - 18:07 ? 00:00:00 / usr/bin/pulseaudio.real --start --log-target=syslog S juhaj 9752 9746 0 80 0 5336 30992 - 18:07 ? 00:00:00 / usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper S juhaj 9756 9724 0 99 19 2160 3488 - 18:07 pts/4 00:00:00 grep pulseau Today is 20.11.2016, I am running on tty 4 and currently controlling 0 jobs juhaj@meissa 18:07:40 ~> I do not think this behaviour is correct. The user juhaj is pristine, and default.pa comes from the deb, except I've added load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1 just before .ifexists module-udev-detect.so load-module module-udev-detect .else ### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support) load-module module-detect .endif > BTW: do you have more then one soundcard installed? If not just run > alsamixer without any option. Your guess is correct. A total of three soundcards, although only two are relevant here: the third one is a webcam which only has a microphone, no speakers. Now that you mention it, while alsamixer -c1 and alsamixer -c2 also start pulseaudio, only alsamixer -c0 causes any volumes to change. Which makes me wonder perhaps load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1 has something to do with the changing of the mute setting. Having said that, I don't really mind if pulseaudio gets started as long as it does not screw up the mixer settings in the process: I can always configure other software to use alsa explicitly if I need to. So I still think the problem is that pulseaudio gets started in the first place. Cheers, Juha
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