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Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:35 pm
by affirmedatheist
It's minor, but I'm finding the fact that my box is automatically setting sound to 'mute' upon login to be, well, annoying.
It's about the only problem. Sound otherwise works fine, I'm just wondering if there's some sort of command I can set to run at startup to rid myself of this annoyance.
As I say, everything else works fine - great even. Multiple programs are running sound concurrently, even (I had previously been having the issue of only being able to have sound from one application at a time, but when I switched to the Mint Incoming repos (and updated to the latest software) this issue seems to have solved itself. This is more or less the last niggling problem I have with audio.
Re: Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:30 pm
by impuwat
Any answers? I've had the same exact problem. Love Mint overall but this little problem is wearing on me. Having to go to "preferences" then "sound" then unchecking "mute" on a regular basis.
Re: Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:08 am
by Gerd50
Hi impuwat,
you read this? -
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=83444 - Point 5 - Deatails! Details! Details!
No help possible without details. For the specs of your soundcard please post the output of
Are you member of the group audio?
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grep "^audio" /etc/group | grep "$USER" | wc -l
Do you use alsa, pulseaudio or both?
Re: Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:33 pm
by bootmakr
I have a similar problem ..... I
AM a member of the audio group, and I have an Intel sound card;
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cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Linux 2.6.39-2-486 #1 Tue Jul 5 02:52:23 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
(irq and hex deleted for security reasons)
Here are the symptoms I experience:
My alsa mixer defaults to the master slide being all the way down (muted?) with the headphone,speaker, PCM, line in, and beep slides all the way to the top (max sound?). This happens every time I change from one audio/video to another (whether You Tube, news sites, or other sites having mp3 sound, etc.). The only way I can listen with the headphones when this happens is to open the Alsa Mixer, slide the master all the way to the top, slide the speaker all the way down, mute the speaker, then unmute it again, and the headphones will work without the speaker! If I don't mute/unmute the speaker, the headphones won't work at all
Re: Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:40 am
by Brian49
Perhaps your ALSA mixer settings aren't being saved between sessions. Once you have chosen your preferred settings, run this command in a terminal:
If it is any consolation, it took me ages to find this solution when I had the same problem!
Re: Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:02 pm
by bootmakr
Thanks Brian49, I'll try that.
Found out that I had to use sudo
put ion my password, and then it seemed to accept it ..... I'll test it now.
That didn't work, I'm back to square one! bootmakr
Re: Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:51 pm
by bootmakr
Now that I've removed pulseaudio and alsa, and re-installed alsa, then used the command you posted, everything works fine! THX
Re: Sound muted when I start up/login?
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:12 pm
by Brian49
I've never liked PulseAudio - an unnecessary additional layer of software. One of the good things about LMDE is that you can completely remove PulseAudio with no negative effects; I could never manage that on standard Linux Mint, probably because Ubuntu is so heavily committed to PulseAudio.