Hi All, My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. This is what I am talking about:
Sound level undesirable ============== Kmail pops up a warning and the sound level is 100%. The first time. On the second warning when it happens a couple of seconds later, the sound level is back down to normal levels, say 55%. Without me interfering with any audio settings. Some time later another warning pops up and this time the sound may be normal, a second warning a couple of seconds later may be back to 100%. It appears to me as if sound levels generated by dekstop/application warnings are adjusted dynamically on the fly and at will, but not my will ... Non-KDE applications, e.g. Pidgin bleep at top volume when IMs are sent/received. Adjusting their volume thankfully sticks, at least for the desktop session in question. Alsamixer ====== Running alsamixer shows: Card: PulseAudio Chip: PulseAudio with a single Master bar for adjusting the volume. Selecting F6 shows Sound Card set to (default), with 'HDA Intel MID' and 'HDA ATI HDMI' below it. When I select 0 for 'HDA Intel MID' I get all my familiar alsamixer settings back including Master, Headphones, Speaker, PCM, Mic, etc. Adjusting these allow me to arrive at sane volume levels as used to be the case in the past. However, the annoying thing is these settings do not stick between reboots. On another laptop with a different audio card, things are even stranger. The card pops/crackles at boot time, but all sound is dead unless and until I run alsactl init. Then if the sound gets quite loud, e.g. the other side of a Skype call raises their voice above a certain level, all sound is lost until I run alsactl init again. This is becoming tedious to say the least. Have you noticed anything similar to either of the above problems ? What may be causing these problems and are there any fixes/workarounds? I honestly can't recall sound ever being such a pain on my systems. -- Regards, Mick
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