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dreamersbrow

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From: Iowa

Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 24

Sound balance problems on startup

I've just recently noticed that when I start up my computer, the sound slider on Gnome3 is always clear to the right.  I am able to re-center the slider and all works well until the next restart.  I've got alsa in my rc.conf file and did the whole alsactl store procedure as instructed in the wiki.

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 3
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2)
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks.

artiom

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 111

Re: Sound balance problems on startup

I have the same problem, but it is not Alsa issue I think. It is rather pulseaudio which has this incorrect "default" somewhere. I looked with alsamixer just after the boot: all levels are ok (they are restored by alsa init script), but after login they are immediately disbalanced. I managed to correct this behaviour once by deleting all pulse user files (.pulse and others in home directory). But now it is back again.

dreamersbrow

Member

From: Iowa

Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 24

Re: Sound balance problems on startup

Thanks artiom,
After deleting the files in the .pulse directory, my sound seems to be performing correctly.

artiom

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 111

Re: Sound balance problems on startup

Sometimes you should also delete these files from gdm user's home - /var/lib/gdm

artiom

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 111

Re: Sound balance problems on startup

Does somebody have an idea why it happen? How to configure pulse to not to touch audio device's levels and balance?