GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 97847
Reboot cause Volume levels reset to default
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Every time I reboot I must set volume settings, treble, bass etc manually. The problem is not cosmetic (volume sliders show actual level in use). How to reproduce: 1. change volume-settings from gnome-volume-control 2. logout and reboot 3. login 4. volume settings is resetted to default Note: In previous version of Gnome (1.4 I think it was, shipped with Mandrake 8.2) the problem was easily solved by running "gmix -i" at startup but in Gnome 2 it do not work (with "gnome-volume-control -i" as stated in --help)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94213 ***
Not a duplicate. This issue is, I'm guessing, that ALSA automatically mutes the channels, so you need to restore them to their original defaults. gmix used to be able to do this, but I removed the functionality from gnome-volume-control, because there are other applications that are designed for just this: alsactrl I think is one.
and due to the other utilities being available, I'm not putting this functionality back into gnome-volume-control
Sorry for continuing discussion on a bug that's been closed for halv a year, but I can't really see what neither luis nor Iain are talking about. I have the same problem as Johan. When I've just restarted my computer I get the following: [daniel@Datorn daniel]$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-Ensoniq_ES1370-1/vol/volume_left 101 [daniel@Datorn daniel]$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-Ensoniq_ES1370-1/vol/volume_right 101 ...meaning the setting for the volume is at full, which is just what I did set it to before rebooting. When I start gnome-volume-control I see that volume is not full, but just about half. I exit gnome-volume-control and check gconf again: [daniel@Datorn daniel]$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-Ensoniq_ES1370-1/vol/volume_left 64 [daniel@Datorn daniel]$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-Ensoniq_ES1370-1/vol/volume_right 64 ...meaning volume is now at half. Seems like gnome-volume-control doesn't load the gconf keys after reboot. I can't really see the connection between this and muting. The volume isn't muted, it's just back to default... I run gnome-media 2.2.1.1 (rawhide rpm) but the problem has been there for quite a while (could bee since gnome 2 was first installed).