Bug 360606

Summary:	muted sound after boot into gnome desktop
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Fatih Alabas <f.alabas>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	hpj, jimomura, tiwai
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Description Fatih Alabas 2008-02-11 14:38:15 UTC

I am using opensuse 10.3 with gnome desktop.

My sound card and sound works, however mutes persistently after every boot. There seems no problem with sound card, but the only problem is; after boot, it goes in to muted state. So I need to unmute the sound card manually after every boot in order to hear sound. The last stored mixer adjustments are not remembered by whatever responsible from this job in the operating system. After every boot, mixer settings are reset and completely muted. Then I see the sound muted sign of the gnome-volume-control on the panel bar.

I have already followed up the troubleshooting guides on;

http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshooting and http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000262, but nothing helped...

I tried newest alsa driver versions; 1.0.15 and 1.0.16rc1,
tried to set the options with "alsamixer" and then "alsactl store" as root, tried "rcalsasound restart" and a number of other things which is already discussed in that forum;
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=63283&pid=262139&mode=threaded&show=&st=&#entry262139
but nothing helps.

There are some people in that forum who have same motherboard that has same on-board sound card, but they do not have such a problem. However they are using KDE desktop. The problem did not exist when my PC was installed by opensuse 10.1 with KDE desktop before fresh opensuse 10.3 Gnome installation.

On the other hand, which is important; when I boot and so reboot into just runlevel 3, I have no problem with the sound system, it works and never mutes. Then when I try to initiate the Gnome desktop by "init 5" or "startx" from within the runlevel 3, the sound mutes again.

Here below the outputs of the scripts from opensuse audiotroubleshooting guide:
http://pastebin.ca/888889
http://nopaste.com/p/aQqB2854ob

Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2008-02-13 10:08:18 UTC

The  fact that runlevel 3 works implies that GNOME specific problem.  Maybe some GNOME app restores the old mixer setting that has the muted state.

Reassigned to GNOME guys.

Comment 2 Jim Omura 2008-07-08 01:34:30 UTC

Try the "Application Browser" -> "System" -> "Sound" and change everything that is "Autodetect" to "ALSA Mixer" and see if that helps.

Comment 3 Fatih Alabas 2008-07-08 18:12:16 UTC

It has no use; problem persists.

Comment 4 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-08-03 22:44:52 UTC

Fatih: The only things I can think of at the moment are playing around some more with the settings in the GNOME control center and the full-blown volume controls available from the right-click menu of the volume applet.

Comment 5 Fatih Alabas 2008-08-04 07:16:24 UTC

I had tried various settings with failure.

Finally, yesterday I made an update from 10.3 to 11.0 . The problem did not occur on opensuse 11.0 with Gnome desktop ! 

I guess the bug is specific to A7N8X mainboard with nforce2 soundcard when on opensuse 10.3 only with Gnome desktop. 

From my experience, I may suggest either utilizing opensuse 10.3 with KDE desktop or updating to opensuse 11.0 for that mainboard owners who has such a problem.