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unkiepunkie

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 17

Pulsaudio muted sound

Hi everyone,

I'm using pulsaudio and sometimes for no apparant reason my sound is muted. In pavucontrol all volume settings are correct: no muted sound and nothing turned to 0%.

The only way to unmute the sound i found is by changing the alsa configuration back to default (so it doesn't use pulseaudio) and then using alsamixer to unmute the sound (after which I have to put back the origional configuration of alsa). What causes this behaviour and how can i fix it?

Thanks in advance.

unkiepunkie

Member

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 17

Re: Pulsaudio muted sound

Okay, I just found out the following command allows me to run alsamixer without changing the alsa configuration. The rest of the problem still stands, however.

alsamixer -c 0

insanemal

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From: Brisbane/Australia

Registered: 2009-05-05

Posts: 140

Re: Pulsaudio muted sound

Follow the wiki for the setup of Pulse.

Specificity the part about setting your Alsa levels and then saving them.

OR if you look in the Beginners guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … igure_ALSA

  Saving the Sound Settings

Exit your normal user shell and run /usr/sbin/alsactl as root:

$ exit
# alsactl store

Enjoy

PS. Is this even the right part of the forum to post in?

Last edited by insanemal (2009-07-07 14:13:35)

unkiepunkie

Member

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 17

Re: Pulsaudio muted sound

The settings are stored. And rc.d/alsa restores the settings when it is started per default.
This was all setup since before the problem occured.

One of the problems it is that the problem occurs only rarely, so its difficult to find a cause.

And no, this is probably not the correct part of the forum. Sorry for that.