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[SOLVED] KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Mar 6th, '17, 12:17
by BlueDragon
Hi all,
Litte problem making me nuts. Can be very unpleasant for the ears. Every time I reboot, my KDE Mixer Playback Device Volumes are all back to 100%. This does not happen upon log out and in again, only after a reboot.
I tried to toggle the 'Restore volumes on login' setting in the KMix Configure Panel under Start, but that did not change anything.
Anyone having some idea how to find a solution?
Thanks
Re: KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Jun 22nd, '17, 13:47
by wintpe
Its a while since i did this, so please use your initiative to locate the detail
use alsamixer a text mode program to setup the initial defaults, then save its config so that
on boot the settings are at a reasonable level.
im not sure its kde itself at fault.
regards peter
Re: KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Jul 23rd, '17, 21:00
by eco2geek
I haven't installed Mageia 6 KDE, but have spent a bunch of time running it from the live DVD. Which is to say, I don't know if this problem goes away after installation.
The problem is that, when KDE plays system sounds (such as the system bell), the volume level spikes to 100%, no matter what it was set at before.
One solution involves editing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, and uncommenting the "flat-volumes = yes" value (i.e. remove the ";" in front of it) and changing "yes" to "no", so that the entry reads:
flat-volumes = no
Then log out and log back in. That seems to do the trick.
Re: KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Jul 27th, '17, 18:36
by kernow
Founde this on the Errata which may help:
Plasma 5 / KDE Applications
The volume of the sound changes suddenly to 100% during a Plasma session
This is because PulseAudio uses flat volumes by default, instead of relative volumes, relative to an absolute master volume (mga#19377). If this is found to be inconvenient, relative volumes can be enabled by disabling flat volumes in the PulseAudio daemon's configuration file:
edit etc/pulse/daemon.conf
change
;flat-volumes = yes
To
flat-volumes = no
then restart PulseAudio by executing
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio --start
Re: KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Jul 30th, '17, 09:53
by roadrunner
eco2geek wrote:I haven't installed Mageia 6 KDE, but have spent a bunch of time running it from the live DVD. Which is to say, I don't know if this problem goes away after installation.
The problem is that, when KDE plays system sounds (such as the system bell), the volume level spikes to 100%, no matter what it was set at before.
One solution involves editing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, and uncommenting the "flat-volumes = yes" value (i.e. remove the ";" in front of it) and changing "yes" to "no", so that the entry reads:
flat-volumes = no
Then log out and log back in. That seems to do the trick.
Yes, that definitely works.
Re: KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Aug 1st, '17, 12:54
by wintpe
isadora missed one, my my he must be slacking....
please set title to resolved please, if you are happy with the solution.
regards peter
Re: KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Aug 1st, '17, 13:24
by isadora
Re: KDE Mixer Sound on 100% after Reboot
Posted:
Dec 23rd, '17, 03:02
by BlueDragon
Thanks for the solution. Seems to work for me too!
(I just had to log out and in again, stopping and starting again pulseaudio was giving me an error.)
Will mark it as solved.