Bug#645002: Volume mute at every restart of pulseaudio (or restart of X)

[Domenico Cufalo]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 1.0-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
on my EeePc 1000HE, on which I use pulseaudio, I always had to add the
"ignore_dB = 1" option to "load-module module-udev-detect", to obtain better
control of the fn keys for volume and other small problems.

Following the recent updates to pulseaudio, this option causes an annoying
reset of the Speaker channel of alsamixer, because of which the volume of the
PC is reset every time I restart the process or the pc or just X.

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xf7eb8000 irq 43

$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_realtek   206339  1
snd_hda_intel          21691  4
snd_hda_codec          58364  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              12936  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            36377  0
snd_mixer_oss          17713  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                53315  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi           12744  0
snd_rawmidi            22621  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     13124  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                39539  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              22027  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         12985  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    38562  17
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              12992  2 snd
snd_page_alloc         12899  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

If you need more information, please do not hesitate to ask.

I and thanks,
Domenico Cufalo



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser             3.113      
ii  consolekit          0.4.5-1    
ii  libasound2          1.0.24.1-4 
ii  libasound2-plugins  1.0.24-2+b1
ii  libc6               2.13-21    
ii  libcap2             1:2.22-1   
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.4.16-1   
ii  libfftw3-3          3.2.2-1    
ii  libice6             2:1.0.7-2  
ii  libltdl7            2.4-4      
ii  liborc-0.4-0        1:0.4.16-1 
ii  libpulse0           1.0-4      
ii  libsamplerate0      0.1.8-1    
ii  libsm6              2:1.2.0-2  
ii  libsndfile1         1.0.25-3   
ii  libspeexdsp1        1.2~rc1-1  
ii  libtdb1             1.2.9-4+b1 
ii  libudev0            172-1      
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.4-2  
ii  libx11-xcb1         2:1.4.4-2  
ii  libxcb1             1.7-3      
ii  libxtst6            2:1.2.0-3  
ii  lsb-base            3.2-28     
ii  udev                172-1      

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.30-1
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat  1.0-4    
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     1.0-4    
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2   

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             <none>  
ii  paprefs           <none>  
ii  pavucontrol       0.99.2-1
ii  pavumeter         <none>  
ii  pulseaudio-utils  1.0-4   

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/default.pa changed:
..nofail
..fail
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
..ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect ignore_dB=1
..else
load-module module-detect
..endif
..ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
load-module module-jackdbus-detect
..endif
..ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
..endif
..ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
..endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
..ifexists module-gconf.so
..nofail
load-module module-gconf
..fail
..endif
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-rescue-streams
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
..ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
..endif
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-cork-music-on-phone
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply
..ifexists module-dbus-protocol.so
load-module module-dbus-protocol
..endif


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