[Cooker] Sound issue

[Toni Diaz]

Since some time ago, when I start session my sound is muted (speaker icon shows muted).
When unmuting, ever is at 100% volume (this is a problem if you don't remember this and you are using headphones).

I think the change to 2.6.30 has something to see. Yesterday, I reinstalled my cooker setup to x86_64. For some reason, the kernel was not updated. When starting session, volume didn't work, but it was not muted (the icon was not the 'muted' one). But pulseaudio didn't work.

The problem was that the new version of udev was asking for a 2.6.30 kernel to enable something to let pulseaudio work. Once updated the kernel, pulse returned to work, but also returned the muted sound issue.

Regards

[Colin Guthrie-8]

'Twas brillig, and Toni Diaz at 05/07/09 08:01 did gyre and gimble:

> Since some time ago, when I start session my sound is muted (speaker
> icon shows muted).
> When unmuting, ever is at 100% volume (this is a problem if you don't
> remember this and you are using headphones).
>
> I think the change to 2.6.30 has something to see. Yesterday, I
> reinstalled my cooker setup to x86_64. For some reason, the kernel was
> not updated. When starting session, volume didn't work, but it was not
> muted (the icon was not the 'muted' one). But pulseaudio didn't work.
>
> The problem was that the new version of udev was asking for a 2.6.30
> kernel to enable something to let pulseaudio work. Once updated the
> kernel, pulse returned to work, but also returned the muted sound issue.

Yes the default pulse setup requires kernel 2.6.30 and udev 143. This
has been mentioned earlier on the list.

As for the starting muted thing, I'm not too sure about this but I see
this too.

In a few weeks when the Desktop Summit is over and the PA maintainer
returns from holiday I'll try and suss out the muted thing. I think it
may stem from other audio setup stuff now done in Fedora at the alsa level.

Col


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[Fabrice FACORAT]

2009/7/5 Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@...>:

>> Since some time ago, when I start session my sound is muted (speaker icon
>> shows muted).
>> When unmuting, ever is at 100% volume (this is a problem if you don't
>> remember this and you are using headphones).


> Yes the default pulse setup requires kernel 2.6.30 and udev 143. This has
> been mentioned earlier on the list.
>
> As for the starting muted thing, I'm not too sure about this but I see this
> too.
>
> In a few weeks when the Desktop Summit is over and the PA maintainer returns
> from holiday I'll try and suss out the muted thing. I think it may stem from
> other audio setup stuff now done in Fedora at the alsa level.

As a reminder : I have also this issue.

KDE 4.2.96
Latest kernel/udev/...
once KDE is started, everything is mute and at 100% level, so I have
to unmute the different sink and decrease the level. However Front is
very low, so I have to increase front, whereas PCM is at 100%.


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[Colin Guthrie-8]

'Twas brillig, and Fabrice Facorat at 14/07/09 12:44 did gyre and gimble:
> KDE 4.2.96
> Latest kernel/udev/...
> once KDE is started, everything is mute and at 100% level, so I have
> to unmute the different sink and decrease the level. However Front is
> very low, so I have to increase front, whereas PCM is at 100%.

Yeah, this is on my list to discuss with upstream once fallout from the
desktop summit has settled.

Col


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