Sound is off after every start-up

[stenshorne]

Hi, I`m new here, and gonna get right to the point.

Every time I start up I have to click on the speaker, and manually turn off the mute and drag the volume up to get sound. This gets quite irritating, knowing that it is a little crappy problem, and quite possibly a very simple sollution to it all.

Is there a way to fix this, so it becomes permanent, so you don`t have to do this every time on start-up?

I`ve got the 9.04, and this is my sound specs, if it is of any help: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia.


Thanks in advance, from stenshorne

[linuxmagick]

Maybe run alsamixer from a prompt. From there you should be able to use your up and down arrow keys to adjust the volume and the M key to mute/unmute (muted will show as MM and unmuted will show as 00). Once you have it set correctly, exit alsamixer and run alsactl store. Someone else may have a better idea.

[stenshorne]

Okay, thanks, but that did not seem to work tho .)

[linuxmagick]

Try this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=764576

It has an extra step that goes along with what I said before. The link above is kind of an old thread, but it's worth a shot.

[stenshorne]

Okay, these where the tips:

So here are the steps:
1) open alsamixer and set the volumes you want;
2) as root, type alsactl store;
3) after booting up, type alsactl restore.

If you want to have alsactl restore started every time you boot up, you can always add it to your /etc/rc.local file (just put the command above the line that reads exit 0)
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After step two and enter I got this:

~$ sudo alsactl store
[sudo] password for oc:
E: core-util.c: Home directory /home/oc not ours.

[linuxmagick]

Try this:

sudo chmod 666 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
alsactl store (without sudo)

Use sudo chmod 644 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state to set the permissions back to the defaults (at least what they are on my system).

Beyond that, I'm not sure. I'm fairly new to using Pulseaudio myself. Hopefully someone who knows a little more about it will see this thread. Good luck and I hope you're able to get it sorted out.

[stenshorne]

Sorry, that was a no-go,

I typed: sudo chmod 666 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state

nothing happened

then: alsactl store

nothing happened

I also tried alsactl restore, after reboot, just for the hell of it, but no, nothing.

Could it be a packagebug of some sort?


But anyways, thanks for your effort, mighty nice of you! Hope I can get this silly little problem off my hands soon.

[dozch]

I had exactly the same problems as you (same sound card even) and the suggestions above did fix it for me.

To get around the "Home directory not ours" problem:

* Set up the volumes in alsamixer:

alsamixer -Dhw

* Save the mixer settings in a temporary file .asound.state in your Home folder:

alsactl -f ./.asound.state store

* As root, backup the actual asound.state file and then open it in the editor:

sudo mv /var/lib/alsa/asound.state /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.bck

gksudo gedit /var/lib/alsa/asound.state

* In gedit, open your temporary file .asound.state as well and copy the contents in the (empty) asound.state file. Press Save.

* Now open /etc/rc.local and add the line

alsactl restore

before the line "exit 0" (leave that in)

Hope this helps.

[Nyhus]

I have the exact same problem and i've also tried saving "alsactl store" in "rc.local", but it just dose not seem to work. The mute button didn't shine the first time i rebooted, but there still was no sound.

* In gedit, open your temporary file .asound.state as well and copy the contents in the (empty) asound.state file. Press Save.

When i open the .asound.state file it's empty, so there is nothing to copy.

This is basicly everything i've done to this point:

alsamixer (in the mixer, i turned everything to max)
sudo alsactl store;
sudo alsactl restore (then the volum is turned up the way it's supposed to be)
sudo gedit /etc/rc.local (where i put alsactl restore above the exit 0 command)

I dont understand what went wrong, cause the sound is still muted when i boot up xubuntu and as far as i can understand it should have worked. I alos got the "/home/*not ours" message, but fixed it by going "sudo su" on its ***.

More suggestions would be appreciated.

I'm new to xubuntu, so i have no idea if you need this info, but this is what my .asound.state file says:

state.NVidia {
control.1 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.count 1
comment.item.0 IntMic
comment.item.1 ExtMic
iface MIXER
name 'Capture Source'
value IntMic
}
control.2 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 23'
comment.dbmin 0
comment.dbmax 3450
iface MIXER
name 'Int Mic Capture Volume'
value.0 0
value.1 0
}
control.3 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Int Mic Capture Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
}
control.4 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 23'
comment.dbmin 0
comment.dbmax 3450
iface MIXER
name 'Ext Mic Capture Volume'
value.0 0
value.1 0
}
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Ext Mic Capture Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
}
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 20'
comment.dbmin -3000
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'PCM Playback Volume'
value.0 20
value.1 20
}
control.7 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'PCM Playback Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
}
control.8 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 20'
comment.dbmin -3000
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'Int Mic Playback Volume'
value.0 20
value.1 20
}
control.9 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Int Mic Playback Switch'
value.0 false
value.1 false
}
control.10 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 20'
comment.dbmin -3000
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'Ext Mic Playback Volume'
value.0 20
value.1 20
}
control.11 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Ext Mic Playback Switch'
value.0 false
value.1 false
}
control.12 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 43'
comment.dbmin -6450
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'Master Playback Volume'
value.0 43
value.1 43
}
control.13 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Master Playback Switch'
value true
}
control.14 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
value '0fff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000'
}
control.15 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
value '0f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000'
}
control.16 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
value '0400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000'
}
control.17 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Switch'
value true
}
control.18 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Default PCM Playback Switch'
value true
}
}

[dozch]

You need to copy the contents of your created .asound.state file (ie. the output you posted) into the file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. It is expected that it is empty because you 'moved' (= renamed) the old one to asound.state.bck.

/var/lib/alsa/asound.state is where alsactl restores the settings from.

Apologies for the confusion.