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Sometimes when I boot up to XFCE the sound of Skype can blow me out of my seat. Other times (like right this very minute) I have to strain to hear Skype load.
The sliders have not moved. Pulse sure acts differently than alsa used to for me
Not the same. Sliders in alsamixer and pulsemixer don't move. Nothing gets access ... Reboot to a different volume every time. flat-volumes either yes or no makes no difference.
Only thing to access sound is Skype 0n start-up. Reboot immediately and enjoy a change in volume
Sometimes when I boot up to XFCE the sound of Skype can blow me out of my seat. Other times (like right this very minute) I have to strain to hear Skype load.
The sliders have not moved. Pulse sure acts differently than alsa used to for me
Hasn't Skype required PulseAudio for some time now? Just wondering how you can compare Skype with ALSA if Skype doesn't directly support that.
I haven't used Skype for a few years now. Just tried it and it worked well on pulse but can hear the sound Skype makes on bootup, immediately reboot and get a different volume level.
The only other time the sound card is accessed is when I watch YouTube. For what I just described there is no browser loaded. I use Chromium by the way
I haven't used Skype for a few years now. Just tried it and it worked well on pulse but can hear the sound Skype makes on bootup, immediately reboot and get a different volume level.
The only other time the sound card is accessed is when I watch YouTube. For what I just described there is no browser loaded. I use Chromium by the way
Does this issue happen anywhere other than Skype? Perhaps it is just a Skype issue?
If you set your volume to the desired volume and run 'sudo alsactl store', does that help?
You know, I have done that in a shutdown scrip. Slows things down but changes happen slowly over time. Problem is that the present (changed) volume level is saved to become the new benchmark
IMO having 'alsactl store' in your shutdown scripts is a mistake. Much better to have your card set to a known value on bootup, rather than whatever it happened to be set to when you shut down.
You might also want to try commenting out one or more of these in your /etc/pulse/default.pa, and see if that helps:
Code:
### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
# Pulsemixer slider (XFCE Goodies) set for the absurd level of 153 % volume)
/usr/sbin/alsactl store used manually only as needed. I have trapped a volume that I can live with for now.
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore used as an entry (/etc/rc.d/rc.local)
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