[SOVED] Mint 20 - Settings

[pinnerite]

After I have bootred up each day, I find my settings have changed and have to reconfigured.
For example:

Sound - I need Analogue surround 2.1 Output but it reverts to Digital Input [EC958] Output
Zoom' sound also needs re-setting
CUPS - my printers default settings need re-setting every day.

Could there be a common cause?

[LanceM]

You can try this command to confirm ownership of your Home (note the output of the command):

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sudo chown -Rc $USER:$USER $HOME

[pinnerite]

Interesting command.

The only items changed were a few documents saved under a client Windows virtual machine.

[MrEen]

Install and run PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) and set things there. It has a much better chance of making your settings "stick" than the default sound settings app.

[pinnerite]

I already have pavucontrol installed and have to use it to reset sound issues.
(Which I have to daily now).

But thank you anyway.

[MrEen]

I would suspect some edit somewhere has caused the issue then. Let's see the output of this command:

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curl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/raw/master/src/utils/pa-info?inline=false | bash | nc termbin.com 9999

The last line of output will have a URL pointing to your sound setup. That'll hopefully show us why it keeps changing.

[pinnerite]

Here it is:

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2039 100 2039 0 0 4866 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4866

[MrEen]

The last line is missing.

[pinnerite]

2nd attempt!

alan@albury:~$ curl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaud ... line=false | bash | nc termbin.com 999
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2039 100 2039 0 0 5481 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 5481
alan@albury:~$

[MrEen]

Very odd. Something is blocking it, but I haven't a clue what that might be. Here's what it should have looked like:

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scott@scott-HP ~ $ curl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/raw/master/src/utils/pa-info?inline=false | bash | nc termbin.com 9999
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2039  100  2039    0     0    720      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:--   719
https://termbin.com/0s7n
scott@scott-HP ~ $

Let's just give you something to add to make the 2.1 setting stick. To do that I need to see the output of pacmd list-sinks

[LanceM]

Is mine blocked too?

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lance@LM:~$ curl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/raw/master/src/utils/pa-info?inline=false | bash | nc termbin.com 9999
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2039  100  2039    0     0   3583      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3583
https://termbin.com/grrq

[MrEen]

Is mine blocked too?

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lance@LM:~$ curl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/raw/master/src/utils/pa-info?inline=false | bash | nc termbin.com 9999
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2039  100  2039    0     0   3583      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3583
https://termbin.com/grrq

Nope. Your's spit out the URL https://termbin.com/grrq

[pinnerite]

This is the output this morning before resetting the confiuration.

alan@albury:~$ curl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaud ... line=false | bash | nc termbin.com 9999

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2039 100 2039 0 0 5188 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 5175
https://termbin.com/nhyy
alan@albury:~$

Yes, the last line was present this time.

I just ran it again - after having resetting to Analogue surround 2.1 Output

alan@albury:~$ curl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaud ... line=false | bash | nc termbin.com 9999
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2039 100 2039 0 0 5110 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 5097
https://termbin.com/5voo2
alan@albury:~$

Does that help?

[MrEen]

Yes, that helps greatly. You added a line options snd-hda-intel model=auto to a file (alsa-base.conf?) in /etc/modprobe.d that might have been causing this, but we can work around it regardless.

In the terminal run xed admin:///etc/pulse/default.pa and when the file opens scroll to the bottom and add this new line:

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set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_14.2 output:analog-surround-21

Save and close the file, ignore any terminal warnings, then reboot and you should be all set.

[pinnerite]

That did it!
I am going to save this exchange for future reference.
Thank you.

[LanceM]

You need to mark this as solved as per my signature instructions. Glad it's fixed, courtesy of the master of sound - MrEen

[MrEen]

That did it!
I am going to save this exchange for future reference.
Thank you.

Yes, do save it. The next PulseAudio update might very well overwrite your change, and you'll need to do the same thing again. There is a way to make the edit permanent, but I don't recommend it myself.

[MrEen]

You need to mark this as solved as per my signature instructions. Glad it's fixed, courtesy of the master of sound - MrEen

Ahh grasshopper. I may be on my way to journeyman. But Master? Not even close!

[LanceM]

Ahh grasshopper. I may be on my way to journeyman. But Master? Not even close!

From my perspective you are already there, but it's best to have goals.

[MrEen]

I thank you for the sentiment.

I'll never be a master really, as there's too much stuff that is just beyond my comprehension. And it's made worse by the changes that already occurring and more to come.

The new audio driver was one thing. Now PulseAudio is going to get "replaced" in the future with Pipewire. I can't even get started learning anything useful about Pipewire, as right now they're implementing it to work with PulseAudio instead of in place of PulseAudio. Yet the Ubuntu devs are already leaving fixes aside saying it'll be dealt with by Pipewire.