Just installed Mint xfce and having same problem with maintaining sound
settings. Pulse audio wiki gives this.
Pulseaudio usually overwrites the ALSA settings- for example set with
alsamixer- at start up, even when the alsa daemon is loaded. Since there
seems to be no other way to restrict this be
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: alsa-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Disabling pulseaudio will make the sound indicator, the media keys, the
standard volume control stop working, and will only enable one
application at a time to output sound. And more.
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I tried what Luke suggested, setting autospawn to no in
/etc/pulse/client.conf. This way the alsamixer settings remain as they
were stored. So pulseaudio must be resetting the mixer settings to its
defaults.
What does this autospawn=no mean? Has it any disadvantages?
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In addition to Luke's very valid comment, alsa-restore is either being
run by a udev rule or by the upstart script, this is to cover for a race
between filesystem being mounted and device being probed.
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** Package changed: upstart (Ubuntu) => alsa-utils (Ubuntu)
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Title:
upstart task alsa-restore has no effect
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I did some more testing on this topic. My Macbook has a optical audio
out which is on by default. I want it to be off, so the led is not
always on. I turned S/PDIF off in alsamixer and stored it with 'alsactl
store'.
I created a script /usr/local/bin/alsarestore:
#!/bin/sh
sleep 15
/sbin/alsactl
