Sound System/Profiles Clarification requested

sweetthdevil · 2015-03-20 18:08:12

Hi all,

I am having difficulties with my sound profiles since a while, and after searching here and google I can't figure it out.

For the basic info, I am running archlinux 32bits on my desktop with three users set-up - with pulseaudio and alsa.

Trouble is that most of the time - and not all the time when I login (first user set-up and admin) my sound is muted, and sometimes my device is change. For my wife it is the same, and for my son who connect very rarely (at the moment) it is always muted and the device is always the wrong one.

I have tried to save alsa profile, also tried to deleted all the profile to set them up from fresh - but nothing fixed the issue for good.

I am stuck and do not know what to do or look into any more.

Any guidance or idea would be welcome.

Thanks,

Alad · 2015-03-20 18:15:07

Have you seen

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … _respected
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … -Mute_Mode

etc.?

sweetthdevil · 2015-03-20 18:18:16

Yes checked the wiki, and those.

Trouble is that I cannot pinned point why or even reproduce the steps that lead to it.

Alad · 2015-03-20 18:21:45

You'll need to be more specific on the steps you've tried, as well as your hardware.

The "sometimes device is changed" is typically related to sound card modules loading in a random order. Start by issuing aplay -l and follow the instructions in the ALSA/Troubleshooting wiki page. Though Pulse should take care of this, I think.

ewaller · 2015-03-20 23:14:39

sweetthdevil wrote:

I am having difficulties with my sound profiles since a while,

I have a hard time believing that. From your avatar, the sound profile appears to be okay

Last edited by ewaller (2015-03-20 23:15:04)

jasonwryan · 2015-03-21 00:33:13

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to Multimedia...

sweetthdevil · 2015-03-21 12:05:23

Right,

After a bit of investigation - the trouble is coming because my speakers were plug on the Green at the rear panel (labelled front) - and the muted was happening when I had my Headphone plugged in on the top panel of my desktop.

Issue is that I want to have both available at the same time - and before few months I never had the issues.

Anyway, I now plugged my spekears on the black output on the rear panel - this is the "Surround" channel found via alsamixer. I unmuted it (via alsamiser) and run sudo alsactl store. But upon every reboot the #@*~# channel is still muted?!

Where am I getting it wrong??

Update:

I have created a script to be executed when login - but the card changed number (ie HDA INTEL became 1 - and HDA NVIDIA became 0) so that didn't worked and yes I could write a script that check that number but quite honestly this is becoming rather stupid!

So I played with alsa service. And if I execute "sudo systemctl restart alsa-restore.service" the Surround" channel is unmuted and back at 100%!!

So why is this channel muted every time we reboot???

Last edited by sweetthdevil (2015-03-21 13:33:08)

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