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    volume muted

    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.

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    Re: volume muted

    Hi there!

    Here is how I did it:

    1. Run 'alsamixer' in the Terminal
    2. Get the settings where you want them and press Esc to exit
    3. Run 'sudo alsactl store 0' in the Terminal
    4. Run 'sudo gedit /etc/rc.local' in the Terminal
    5. Add "/sbin/alsactl restore" to the end of that file and save it
    6. 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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    Re: volume muted

    Thanks mac9416, rebooted and volume was not muted

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    Re: volume 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).

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    Re: volume muted

    Thanks, n.hinton, that worked like a charm!
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    Re: volume muted

    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.

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    Re: volume muted

    When I execute 'sudo alsactl store 0' I get the error:

    /home/myname not ours

    Am I doing something wrong?


    Quote Originally Posted by mac9416 View Post
    Hi there!

    Here is how I did it:

    1. Run 'alsamixer' in the Terminal
    2. Get the settings where you want them and press Esc to exit
    3. Run 'sudo alsactl store 0' in the Terminal
    4. Run 'sudo gedit /etc/rc.local' in the Terminal
    5. Add "/sbin/alsactl restore" to the end of that file and save it
    6. 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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    Re: volume muted

    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.

    1. Open /etc/init.d/alsa-utils for editing...
      Code:
      $ sudo gedit /etc/init.d/alsa-utils
    2. Comment out the line that says...
      mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1
      ...to look like...
      #mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1
      Note: you can search for the line using ctrl+f
    3. Save the file, and reboot!


    Good luck!
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    Re: volume muted

    Quote Originally Posted by mac9416 View Post
    Hi there!

    Here is how I did it:

    1. Run 'alsamixer' in the Terminal
    2. Get the settings where you want them and press Esc to exit
    3. Run 'sudo alsactl store 0' in the Terminal
    4. Run 'sudo gedit /etc/rc.local' in the Terminal
    5. Add "/sbin/alsactl restore" to the end of that file and save it
    6. 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!
    I did that and all the levels are up where I want them but alsamixer still starts with them all muted by default. How do I have them unmuted at startup?
    Thanks.

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    Re: volume muted

    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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    You can use Keryx to download your .debs with dependencies from any OS!

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