Re: audio levels lost on reboot

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

As Jude said, you need to use

alsactl store

to store once for good the audio levels you want to have.  I guess it
was intended change of behavior from alsa to avoid letting users change
the bootup sound levels, so that you have a deterministic audio level at
power up instead of what was left last time.

If you think the change of behavior is not so good, please report a bug
against the alsa-utils package.

Thanks,
Samuel

Re: audio levels lost on reboot

[Jude DaShiell]

Well, you could make /etc/rc.local executable and put something like 
this in it:

amixer set Master 85%& store
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Keith Barrett 
wrote:



Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:41:29
From: Keith Barrett <li...@barrettpianos.co.uk>
To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: audio levels lost on reboot
Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:41:46 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org



On 19/10/16 12:48, Keith Barrett wrote:

Is this a known issue?


Debian jessie up to date as of 19/10/16.

Sorry, senior moment, I meant to say stretch..




Setting levels with alsamixer or amixer and after rebooting, levels are 
back at previous low level.


This is regardless of whether a gui is loaded as I boot to a console and 
run startx to load the gui.




Keith Barrett










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Re: audio levels lost on reboot

[Jude DaShiell]

You all did use alsactl store once those levels got set right?  If yes, 
this isn't an alsa problem it's a pulseaudio problem. On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, 
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:



Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:40:59
From: Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com>
To: Debian-Accessibility <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: audio levels lost on reboot
Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:41:17 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org

On 10/19/16, Keith Barrett <li...@barrettpianos.co.uk> wrote:

Is this a known issue?

Debian jessie up to date as of 19/10/16.

Setting levels with alsamixer or amixer and after rebooting, levels are
back at previous low level.



It's a known issue to me on a personal level. Been going on so long
that... I don't know. It consciously crossed my mind that it is an
accessibility issue. All I can do is apologize for not raising it
sooner myself because invasive issues here at the house keep throwing
everything else on a back burner. *sigh*

Mine is Sid Unstable along with:

Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.2-1 (2016-08-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Since I'm on Sid, that played a part in tolerating the annoyance as
long as I have, too

Not even sure what I'm using for audio because it has been so long
since I tried to "fix" those kinds of issues on this setup. Well,
might have had a lifting of cognitive clouds for a second. Just
thought to look under my Applications menu. I see Audio Mixer and
PulseAudio Volume Control under "Multimedia".

As a last step, I remembered there was a related helpful terminal
command line I could run so I opened Audio Mixer then ran "ps -aux"
(as regular user). It showed me I have xfce4-mixer running as that
generically named "Audio Mixer" under the Applications menu.

Cindy :)




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Re: audio levels lost on reboot

[Keith Barrett]

On 19/10/16 12:48, Keith Barrett wrote:

Is this a known issue?


Debian jessie up to date as of 19/10/16.

Sorry, senior moment, I meant to say stretch..




Setting levels with alsamixer or amixer and after rebooting, levels 
are back at previous low level.


This is regardless of whether a gui is loaded as I boot to a console 
and run startx to load the gui.




Keith Barrett

Re: audio levels lost on reboot

[Cindy-Sue Causey]

On 10/19/16, Keith Barrett  wrote:
> Is this a known issue?
>
> Debian jessie up to date as of 19/10/16.
>
> Setting levels with alsamixer or amixer and after rebooting, levels are
> back at previous low level.


It's a known issue to me on a personal level. Been going on so long
that... I don't know. It consciously crossed my mind that it is an
accessibility issue. All I can do is apologize for not raising it
sooner myself because invasive issues here at the house keep throwing
everything else on a back burner. *sigh*

Mine is Sid Unstable along with:

Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.2-1 (2016-08-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Since I'm on Sid, that played a part in tolerating the annoyance as
long as I have, too

Not even sure what I'm using for audio because it has been so long
since I tried to "fix" those kinds of issues on this setup. Well,
might have had a lifting of cognitive clouds for a second. Just
thought to look under my Applications menu. I see Audio Mixer and
PulseAudio Volume Control under "Multimedia".

As a last step, I remembered there was a related helpful terminal
command line I could run so I opened Audio Mixer then ran "ps -aux"
(as regular user). It showed me I have xfce4-mixer running as that
generically named "Audio Mixer" under the Applications menu.

Cindy :)

-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* runs with duct tape *