muted output becomes volume == 0 on session restart

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

I am not sure why you are claiming it is not a bug report, it certainly seems like
a bug to me, could you please explain?

I am setting the status back to new. If you need some more information to
convince you of why it is a bug then please set to incomplete. If you have
a good reason why this behaviour is correct then please set to Invalid again
and accept my apologies.

Thanks,

James

the bug lack basic informations like the version of ubuntu you are using for one thing. Could you also try if that's specific to the applet or happens when using the mixer for example?

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, some hardware trouble meant that I couldn't test the bug.

I am using gutsy.

Your question about whether it is specific to the applet has pointed me to some
more information. If I right-click on the applet and open the volume control
the master channel is not muted, but is set to zero volume. The applet
is shows that there is volume, it is just that master is muted.

Also, testing on another system it appears as though the problem is specific
to the driver. I can't replicate the issue on my laptop (snd_hda_intel), and
so it may be specific to snd_emu10k1.

Please let me know if I can provide any more information.

Thanks,

James

does anybody still get the issue in hardy or intrepid?

Hi Sebastien,

I still get this, but the symptom has changed slightly, I the "Mute"
option in the context menu is now no longer selected, but selecting
and un-selecting it have no effect.

Thanks,

James

the issue seems rather a driver or alsa one

Got similar issue with audigy 2zs + nForce 2 400 Ultra. Mute microphone makes its volume 0, not actually mutes it. But when unmuted its volume stays at level 0, but not restores level before mute.

This problem is still present in the latest builds of 9.10 for some people (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7405750#post7405750)

Sorry, looks like we are facing a different problem actually. I apologise for my previous comment, and will file a new bug.

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+341-g62bf-0ubuntu1

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pulseaudio (1:0.9.22~0.9.21+341-g62bf-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New snapshot based on stable-queue git branch (testing requested
    specifically by upstream)
    - LP: #164745, #173212, #201391, #204536, #207796, #210016, #221038,
    - LP: #226342, #230408, #236423, #237443, #250059, #269585, #274304,
    - LP: #274577, #275474, #277532, #277566, #277932, #278025, #280534,
    - LP: #283049, #286816, #287036, #292732, #298011, #298301, #300290,
    - LP: #302038, #311497, #311853, #324062, #339448, #344057, #348979,
    - LP: #350829, #356206, #367379, #367544, #369822, #371897, #374846,
    - LP: #375570, #381801, #399515, #402950, #403786, #408169, #409322,
    - LP: #409723, #410326, #410446, #417695, #417976, #419271, #421072,
    - LP: #422774, #423979, #424655, #425028, #427016, #431072, #432660,
    - LP: #437640, #437996, #442191, #443306, #443389, #446719, #449762,
    - LP: #455417, #461532, #464652, #483191, #497537, #503780
  * debian/patches/:
    + add: 0099-change-configure-git-version-tag.patch: Match released
           upstream 0.9.21 for shlibs and LIBPULSE_VERSION_INFO
    - drop: 0004-set-tsched0.patch (no longer relevant)
            0050-revert-pacmd-poll-argv.patch (no longer relevant)
            0056-dont-bail-on-sound-class-modem.patch (merged)
            0056-ignore-sound-class-modem.patch (merged)
            0058-Backport-4c793.patch (merged)
            0059-Backport-978d3.patch (merged)
            0060-fix-implicit-func-decl-cpu-arm.patch (merged)
            0061-Backport-c5fdb.patch (merged)
            0070-dont-bail-on-sound-class-modem-devs.patch (merged)
    + refresh: 0001-change-resample-and-buffering.patch
               0090-disable-flat-volumes.patch
               0091-dont-load-cork-music-on-phone.patch
               0057-load-module-x11-bell.patch
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:33:05 -0500