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ILoveJapaneseGirls

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 72

Alsamixer settings reset everytime I play a song

Hello,

everytime I play a song (with any player), and either Stop the song or the song ends, the Alsamixer settings are restored to values that I don't like: Master (70%), PCM (56%), Front (100%), Surround (100%), Center (100%).

I want to set all these values to 85%, but they keep resetting. I've already tried the Restore ALSA Mixer settings at startup from the wiki but it still doesn't work.

Card: HDA NVidia
Chip: Analog Devices AD1986A

lsmod | grep "snd"
snd_usb_audio          91777  2 
snd_usbmidi_lib        18665  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_codec_analog    78696  1 
snd_rawmidi            19519  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device          5268  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hda_intel          22122  3 
snd_hda_codec          77927  2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6325  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                73856  4 saa7134_alsa,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19416  1 snd_pcm
snd                    57786  25 saa7134_alsa,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6146  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7121  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usbcore               142544  12 rndis_wlan,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,gspca_sonixj,rndis_host,cdc_ether,usbnet,gspca_main,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Does anyone know how to solve it? If you need additional information, just ask.

Thanks in advance!

ILoveJapaneseGirls

Banned

Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 72

Re: Alsamixer settings reset everytime I play a song

Okay, half of the problem is solved:

following the wiki, in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf I changed flat-volumes = no and uncommented it. Now the songs don't change the mixer settings anymore.

However, everytime the system boots they get changed to their old values.

Any solutions? Thanks!

fredo1664

Member

From: Ireland (but I'm French)

Registered: 2011-08-09

Posts: 29

Re: Alsamixer settings reset everytime I play a song

Hi

I fixed the same issue (old values after reboot) by stopping and restarting the Alsa deamon as root. I'm not in front of my Arch box so I'm writing from memory:

sudo /etc/rc.d/alsa stop
sudo /etc/rc.d/alsa start

It saved the settings (system wide) and when I restarted the computer, they weren't lost.
Hope it helps. I can check tonight what I exactly did.

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orasis

Member

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 48

Re: Alsamixer settings reset everytime I play a song

Get rid of all of your old Alsa Configuration files and run...

#alsactl store

again.

Last edited by orasis (2011-08-18 05:20:05)

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