[bryansmith]

Hey all,

I seem to be having problems with the GNOME volume control restoring my settings. Everytime I boot up, the GNOME volume settings are all muted and at 0. Other than this, after unmuting them all and turning up the volume, the sound works fine. Any ideas as to why this might be?

Bryan

[Vergil83]

is just for GNOME or is it with alsa? I know when I use arch, I needed to load alsa last because it was trying to load to fast in the default position

[bryansmith]

Well, I feel like an idiot.

I forgot to add alsa to my DAEMONS array in my rc.conf. I never had to do that with KDE so that's probably why I forgot.

Bryan

[venkat]

Originally Posted by bryansmith

Hey all,

I seem to be having problems with the GNOME volume control restoring my settings. Everytime I boot up, the GNOME volume settings are all muted and at 0. Other than this, after unmuting them all and turning up the volume, the sound works fine. Any ideas as to why this might be?

Bryan

please reply immediately

[venkat]

Originally Posted by bryansmith

Hey all,

I seem to be having problems with the GNOME volume control restoring my settings. Everytime I boot up, the GNOME volume settings are all muted and at 0. Other than this, after unmuting them all and turning up the volume, the sound works fine. Any ideas as to why this might be?

Bryan

please reply immediate

[Vergil83]

I am confused......

[Paul Dufresne]

I was having the same problem and google was making me come here.
Well adding alsa in /etc/rc.conf, is not enough.
I now have:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network alsa netfs crond gdm)

the trick is to set the volume right, then open a terminal with applications/accessories/terminal, then use 'su' to become root.
Well you did set a root password at installation, did you?

before you do the next command, you are supposed to have done:
#pacman -Sy alsa-lib alsa-utils
#pacman -S alsa-oss

Ok, THE trick is mostly this:
#alsactl store
that create '/etc/asound.state', the current volume settings.

That's what alsa in DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf will restore!

Ok, I did not found all this by myself, I give credit to:
ArchWiki :: ALSA - ArchWiki

Hope this will help the next one, as it did for me.