Debian User Forums

Hi All,

I recently started a thread about the volume resetting on a Debian 10, via 11 to 12 upgrade: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=157894 and as a result am going to do an install from a live USB because as I found that solved the issue. I was also experiencing lock ups possibly when the screen saver resumed or the monitor was switched off via power saving and issues with nfs but I solved the nfs issue as per the thread.

However, Debian 10 was my first Linux install so I've not ...

Quick update: I've not managed to successfully use amixer or wpctl in a systemd unit or --user unit or .xsession file but each command will work fine from the command line. I did already prove that a live USB install of Debian 12.4 does resolve the always resetting to 40% volume though.

For nfs I have been able to resolve this issue. On Debian 10.x I've always used /media as the mount point in my systemd mount/automount units and it worked fine. For Debian 12 I found they always triggered ...

Ok so I've installed Debian 12.4 (same as I upgraded to) on an external hard drive so as not to upset the current install. I found that initially the volume was 40% but setting it to 100% and rebooting sees it stay at 100%, so as FreewheelinFrank says upgrading from Debian 10 to 12 doesn't really work in that respect even with pipewire-audio installed. Otherwise audio works fine, even Bluetooth audio via the upgrade or install method.

When it comes to nfs I found the same behaviour via upgrade ...

One would hope that the good people behind Debian 12 would make sure it fully worked with pipewire before releasing speaking as a software engineer but I don't want to overly criticise as I know the game. So, I installed pipewire-audio which did indeed remove pulseaudio and pull in pipewire-alsa but sadly after a couple of reboots the volume is still reset to 40%.

I wonder if Debian 12.5 whenever it's released will sort it, otherwise with my NFS issues too I might find a spare hard drive and ...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I will try amixer next but all these workarounds like for gusnan seem to be going in the wrong direction. Clearly this worked in Debian 10 so something has changed. We know that pipewire was introduced in Debian 12(?) but there must be a config file somewhere that sets 40% volume as the default.

FreewheelinFrank These are the packages currently installed for pipewire.


libpipewire-0.3-0/stable,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libpipewire-0.3 ...

Thanks for the link which I've since bookmarked for future reference. Section 5.1.5 seemed relevant but sadly having tried it didn't work for me, i.e. I could adjust the volume to 100% in alsamixer but it didn't persist after reboot. Are there any more suggestions please? Could it be something to do with doing an upgrade from Debian 10 via 11 as opposed to installing Debian 12 from a live USB?

Thank you.

Hello All,

I've recently updated from Debian 10 (Cinnamon) via Debian 11 to Debian 12 (Cinnamon) back to back and I've noticed that it uses pipewire instead of pulseaudio but that also the volume defaults to 40% on every reboot. Previously on Debian 10 I set it to 100% and it never changed by itself.

I did find this thread: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=783850#p783850 on the forum which is very similar but it feels like there should be a config file setting somewhere rather than a ...