Audio muted in Trollinger

[mrneilypops]

I have tried to adjust alsamixer settings and then;

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sudo alsactl store

...but the audio is always muted on reboot.

I have been able to get mpd to autostart via;

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/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

but I would like not to have to unmute the audio on each reboot.

Any tips welcome.

[machinebacon]

Hello Neil,

first open alsamixer, set up the volume, and then follow this guide: http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Muted_Volume

hth

[mrneilypops]

@machinebacon
I have tried this procedure a couple of times.
However, each time upon reboot the desired alsa settings are not saved and the audio is muted...
Any further ideas most welcome.

Happy Christmas!

[machinebacon]

Neil,
this seems to be a bug (that occurs sometimes on my machine, too - but not even exclusively after a reboot) in lxpanel: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=340

We can try to create an autostart file as suggested otherwhere to start alsactl restore inside of the session:

1) open an editor as root (sudo leafpad /etc/xdg/autostart/alsastart.desktop)
2) paste this snippet and save it:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Alsa resotre
Comment=Restore Alsa to the stored value
Exec=/sbin/alsactl restore
Hidden=true

3) set up your volume once with alsamixer and store the setting using

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sudo alsactl store

4) optional: we read

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sudo cat /var/lib/alsa/asound.state |head -n 40

and check if value.0 and value.1 are not 0. Usually, they should be equivalent of what was assigned via alsamixer in the previous step.
5) Log out and back. Autostart in /etc/xdg/ is launched automagically, so we don't need any entries in Openbox's autostart.

Hope this works. Else we can add a sleep, so that alsa is restored after lxpanel is loaded.

Another try, if it still doesn't work: in a terminal run

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sudo fixsnd

Though this is actually meant to initialize the card.

[mrneilypops]

I followed this procedure but still no luck...

[swftech]

Hello Neil,

first open alsamixer, set up the volume, and then follow this guide: http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Muted_Volume

hth

Thanks Bacon, this volume muted on start up just started happening to me as well in Kielbasa a few days ago. The above fix worked for me. :)

[mrneilypops]

OK... but it ain't working for little old me.
I am sure we will find a solution....PLEASE!
In the meantime ...I have just had the most beautiful beef and 'Yorkshire Puddings' meal...
Yum...Yum...

Now here is an idea for a BBQ release
Openbox with all the trimmings???
'THE YORKSHIRE PUDDING RELEASE'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_pudding

P.S.
My Folks live here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire

[swftech]

^ Yes, I think an update must have been the source of mine being muted. It never happened until about three days ago, and then on every boot I had to un-mute the volume.

Neil, I see "sudo alsactl store" didn;t work for you, did you also add the line to rc.local like below?

Add in an additional line in rc.local

sudo vi /etc/rc.local

Add this line just before exit 0

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alsactl restore

Now, when you reboot, notice your volume is no longer muted.

[machinebacon]

Okay, lxpanel seems to be a different issue than what we have in this thread. The problem comes from systemd:
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/piperma ... 33884.html

When I have a bit more time I will check what we can do - if this is (in Sid) a bug or a missing feature or simply a problem of a config file. I'll bump the thread then.

I'd Love some blood pudding with Yorkshire pudding and then a chocolate pudding as dessert :D

[mrneilypops]

@machinebacon
Thanks, I will keep an eye on this thread.