[arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-09-08 Thread Frank Wilson
According to Kyle: Apparently, Google is not my friend this time, as I can find no information about this problem, and I appear to be the only one experiencing it, and only on this machine. Correction: I actually did find [1], and that appears to be my exact problem, but it is also unsolved.

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-09-08 Thread Chester Wisniewski
I had similar issues on my machine. First I launched mixer and set everything the way I wanted, then I ran sudo alsactl store. Now the problem is gone. Chester On 09/08/2012 09:59 AM, Frank Wilson wrote: According to Kyle: Apparently, Google is not my friend this time, as I can find no

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-09-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
You are not the only one experiencing this problem. This isn't even unique to archlinux either. Wherever pulseaudio is installed, it brings with it chaos and destruction. When I do any install of Linux, if the sound card isn't working it's impossible since I'm totally blind and if the Linux

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-09-08 Thread Kyle
Well, I first must say that I have no interest in removing PulseAudio from my system, as I have had perfectly good results with PulseAudio and accessibility in the past, and in spite of the bug I am experiencing now on this temporary machine, there's nothing that works as seamlessly for me as

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-09-06 Thread Kyle
Finally able to return my attention to this problem. alsa-store.service and alsa-restore.service are oneshot services with no [Install] section. Therefore, they cannot be enabled and disabled using systemctl. They do, however, appear to run as needed, probably as a dependency when udev loads

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-09-06 Thread Kyle
According to Kyle: Apparently, Google is not my friend this time, as I can find no information about this problem, and I appear to be the only one experiencing it, and only on this machine. Correction: I actually did find [1], and that appears to be my exact problem, but it is also

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-08-18 Thread Kyle
According to Rodrigo Rivas: One last idea. Maybe the gnome-settings-daemon is playing dumb with your sound. I think you can disable the sound plugin of g-s-d using dconf (org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.sound.active). I tried dconf write org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/sound/active false

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-08-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Kyle k...@gmx.ca wrote: According to Rodrigo Rivas: One last idea. Maybe the gnome-settings-daemon is playing dumb with your sound. I think you can disable the sound plugin of g-s-d using dconf (org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.sound.active). I tried

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-08-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: while the volume was at the proper level. At this point, I am totally stumped. The computer I had that died used a SoundBlaster Live Value, and although the sound started out muted, restoring the alsa volumes always

[arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-08-16 Thread Kyle
Working from the command line in a text-only console using espeakup, all is well, and sound works as it should. However, starting GDM mutes my sound card. If I go back to the text console and run sudo systemctl start alsa-restore Again, all is well in the text console until I login with GDM.

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-08-16 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Kyle k...@gmx.ca wrote: Working from the command line in a text-only console using espeakup, all is well, and sound works as it should. However, starting GDM mutes my sound card. If I go back to the text console and run sudo systemctl start alsa-restore

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-08-16 Thread Kyle
According to Rodrigo Rivas: Have you tried running alsamixer -D hw and see if there are any muted channels in your hardware? Master is at 87% normally. Once GDM runs, it zeros out and mutes. Also, once pulseaudio starts, the Master channel zeros out and mutes. Also, once I had a similar

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-08-16 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Kyle k...@gmx.ca wrote: According to Rodrigo Rivas: Have you tried running alsamixer -D hw and see if there are any muted channels in your hardware? Master is at 87% normally. Once GDM runs, it zeros out and mutes. Also, once pulseaudio starts, the