Mint 18.1, PA sound server 8.0.
An old, old complaint with lots of different fixes (even patched releases) that still don't seem to work for lots of folks. System vol & "output module" volume jumping to 100%.
I installed all the recommends & suggested. The pulse audio volume control was a bit different looking. Had different looking, promising setting to set max vol on output device, on the system volume. and once media player(s) are running, the volume for them under "Applications" tab. Didn't help.
Problems w/ PA must be so common, Arch Linux has a long wiki article w/ long TOC.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ion_is_started
Quote:
Per default, it seems as if changing the volume in an application sets the global system volume to that level instead of only affecting the respective application. Applications setting their volume on startup will therefore cause the system volume to "jump".
Fix this by disabling flat volumes, as demonstrated in the previous section. When Pulse comes back after a few seconds, applications will not alter the global system volume anymore but have their own volume level again.
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Part of Arch's wiki blames it on apps setting their vol (@ 100%???). On my box, after reboot, don't have to start a player to see the system volume is back at 100%. If you open "Communication Breakdown" or Blue Cheer "Summertime Blues" with headphones on without checking the system vol, you won't have many arguments w/ anyone for a while.
Arch also says one fix the issue is:
Quote:
relative volumes can be enabled by disabling flat volumes in the PulseAudio daemon's configuration file:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf or ~/.config/pulse/daemon.conf
flat-volumes = no
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That line's already in my /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.
Arch also says (by the way),
Quote:
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Note: A previously installed and removed pulseaudio-equalizer may leave behind remnants of the setup in ~/.config/pulse/default.pa or ~/.pulse/default.pa which can also cause maximized volume trouble. Comment that out as needed.
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The only lines in ~/.config/pulse/default.pa I see about equalizer is
Code:
### BEGIN: Equalized audio configuration
### Generated from: pulseaudio-equalizer
load-module module-ladspa-sink sink_name=ladspa_output.mbeq_1197.mbeq master=alsa_output.pci-0000_02_00.0.analog-stereo plugin=mbeq_1197 label=mbeq control=15.8,11.2,11.2,11.2,9.9,14.8,18.5,21.8,23.1,25.1,26.0,26.7,27.0,26.7,22.1
set-default-sink ladspa_output.mbeq_1197.mbeq
set-sink-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_02_00.0.analog-stereo 65536
set-sink-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_02_00.0.analog-stereo 0
### END: Equalized audio configuration
Are they saying comment the 6 active lines?
I installed the PA equalizer & uninstalled "completely." (guess not) I figured the 100% vol was caused by the equalizer - & maybe was, if it modified the file.
The "output driver" - SMPlayer calls them, "ladspa_output.mbeq_1197.mbeq" -
wasn't created by the equalizer (by PA sound server).
Not sure, but if all 6 lines vanish, I may only have the sound card's orig. entry under Sound > Output, "Analog Output, EMU20k2 [X-Fi Titanium Series], that was there before installing PA sound server.
It's kinda big to post the 178 lines file - don't see option to attach files here.
If commenting those lines doesn't fix it, any other suggestions besides uninstall PA sound server, will be appreciated.
