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freaxtux

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Registered: 2012-07-17

Posts: 38

The sound volume goes large value on jack (dis)connection

...which blasts my ears every time I plug my earbuds in

I tried

# alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state store

but it only works for boot, and doesn't work for jack connection/disconnection

Are there any solution for this?

Silkworm205

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From: UK

Registered: 2012-05-21

Posts: 267

Re: The sound volume goes large value on jack (dis)connection

Tried this?

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freaxtux

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Registered: 2012-07-17

Posts: 38

Re: The sound volume goes large value on jack (dis)connection

I doubt that will work. I originally got a message that there wasn't the file when I tried alsactl restore.

freaxtux

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Registered: 2012-07-17

Posts: 38

Re: The sound volume goes large value on jack (dis)connection

So anyway I just tried that. It hasn't change much but to explain it more specifically, GNOME seems to try to save the volume but there seems to be a race condition, or just complete mess.
First when I pull out the earbud, the volume goes up to what seems to be default value. If I plug my earbud again, the volume goes back to low value.
After that, everything seems to get into mess. Sometimes it goes high volume when I plug in and goes low volume when I plug out...before long all goes always high.

And if you try to set a volume, it seems to initialize everything. If you set the volume when you pulled out the plug, the volume you set when you pulled in the plug is gone...

The volume system seems to have a "default" value, which is way higher than my typical usage. Could I just set this volume to small value?

Thank you.

Last edited by freaxtux (2016-02-11 13:04:36)