Just upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic. Now every boot up the volume is muted. Anyone know how to make it remember the volume level between boot ups.
Just upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic. Now every boot up the volume is muted. Anyone know how to make it remember the volume level between boot ups.
Hi there!
Here is how I did it:
- Run 'alsamixer' in the Terminal
- Get the settings where you want them and press Esc to exit
- Run 'sudo alsactl store 0' in the Terminal
- Run 'sudo gedit /etc/rc.local' in the Terminal
- Add "/sbin/alsactl restore" to the end of that file and save it
- Reboot and test the results!
If you are not familiar with alsamixer, there's some great info here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/So...ng%20alsamixer
Good luck!
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Thanks mac9416, rebooted and volume was not muted
The above has had intermittent success (sometimes muted sometimes not). Saw the following post and gave it a try, and this has proved a permanent fix.
Posted by: eli_12345
in post 6 of:Honestly - why is sound muted by default?
My Xubuntu 9.10 got the same issue - sound was always muted after booting the system. I just came across an easy solution that finally worked: comment out the line that contains 'mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1' in the file /etc/init.d/alsa-utils (it was line 378 on my system, just add # to make that line a comment, that's it).
Thanks, n.hinton, that worked like a charm!
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I'm now running Xubuntu 9.10 and had the sound muting problem, but I was also suffering from crappy sound . . . high frequencies did not sound correct. I tried the edit to /etc/rc.local and that sort of worked to correct the muting problem, but the sound was still crummy.
What I found was, and I think this will work better in Xubuntu than other Ubuntu, that removing Pulseaudio solved all the problems.
Look at post #4 in this thread and give it a whirl. Note: Becuase I'm running Xubuntu I didn't need to follow the last couple steps to install another mixer program . . . the one included with Xfce still works just fine.
Hey, 84monte,
No, that error occurred on my machine too. It is of no consequence. However, I would suggest using the method described by n.hinton instead.
- Open /etc/init.d/alsa-utils for editing...
Code:$ sudo gedit /etc/init.d/alsa-utils- Comment out the line that says...
...to look like...mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1
Note: you can search for the line using ctrl+f#mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1- Save the file, and reboot!
Good luck!
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Hey, ethos101,
It turns out that commands in rc.local don't run at startup like they are supposed to. At least they don't for me. I ended up putting '/sbin/alsactl restore' in my Fluxbox startup script and it worked fairly reliably.
However, the best method is probably the one suggested by n.hinton that I described above ( post #8 ). Give it a try and tell me how it turns out.
Good luck!
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