On 05/07/2012 01:40 PM, Stroller wrote: > I'm also seeing that maybe alsa's default state is muted, so that the > muted state would be correct even if the sound state is not being > restored.
I would say the default state is muted except for one very confounding discovery at my end, which may a big difference and may not. After removing alsasound from /etc/runlevels/* (it was in only one level but I can't remember now which one it was ;) I rebooted. I use startx, so right after a reboot there is no X session running yet, and to my astonishment I find that pulseaudio is already running: 1987 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog 1991 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper I haven't spent any time trying to discover who is starting pulseaudio behind my back, but it at least reminds me to ask if you are also using it on your machine.
