[O/S] Debian 11.7 Xfce Stable Volume Control, Configuration Tab, issue? TIA

[Sector7361]

Hi.

I am currently running Debian 11.7 Stable Xfce.

Under the Audio Mixer, in the Configuration Tab, under Volume Control it always defaults to

,

then change it to



and the sounds starts to work, but when I reboot, it defaults to the first image and I have to set it up again.

Is there a way I can fix that and change that default some other way?

Thank you.

[CwF]

I haven't looked at the exact verbiage but the end of the file /etc/pulse/default.pa may help

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### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

[FreewheelinFrank]

To check why this is happening, please post output of the following.

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# lspci -k | grep -A 4 Audio

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# dmesg | grep 'snd\|audio\|firmware'

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# journalctl -k | grep -i 'alsa\|hda\|sof\|snd'

[Sector7361]

I haven't looked at the exact verbiage but the end of the file /etc/pulse/default.pa may help

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### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

Edited the file and uncommented set-default-sink output.

I will reboot and report back.

Thanks.

[Sector7361]

To check why this is happening, please post output of the following.

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lspci -k | grep -A 4 Audio

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-LP SMBus

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sudo dmesg | grep 'snd\|audio\|firmware'

[    2.050962] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/hainan_pfp.bin
[    2.050979] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/hainan_me.bin
[    2.050995] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/hainan_ce.bin
[    2.051010] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/hainan_rlc.bin
[    2.051034] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/hainan_mc.bin
[    2.051061] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/hainan_k_smc.bin
[    2.068452] i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin
[    2.068747] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin (v1.27)
[    9.937343] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db
[    9.937602] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db.p7s
[   10.089028] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode
[   10.089248] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.3216344376.0 3160-17.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[   10.089271] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[   10.089321] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[   10.281889] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   10.282135] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[   10.386162] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC3234: line_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:hp
[   10.386165] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   10.386167] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    hp_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   10.386168] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   10.386169] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    inputs:
[   10.882754] r8169 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw

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sudo journalctl -k | grep -i 'alsa\|hda\|sof\|snd'

Jul 09 20:45:04 user kernel: PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
Jul 09 20:45:04 user kernel: software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x0000000064622000-0x0000000068622000] (64MB)
Jul 09 20:45:04 user kernel: integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
Jul 09 20:45:04 user kernel: integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC3234: line_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:hp
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    hp_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    inputs:
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input40
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: input: HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input41
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input42
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input43
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input44
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input45
Jul 09 20:45:05 user kernel: input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=10 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input46

Let me know if you need any other information.

Thank you.

[sunrat]

I haven't looked at the exact verbiage but the end of the file /etc/pulse/default.pa may help

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### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

Edited the file and uncommented set-default-sink output.

You need to edit it to the actual name of the sink - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseA ... utput_sink
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set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_04_01.0.analog-stereo

[Dude Guyman]

When mine kept switching to an unwanted audio device, I had to modify (with text editor of your choice)

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/etc/pulse/default.pa

and comment out all modules that start with

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module-switch-on-*

by adding " # " in front of it.

module-switch-on-port-available <-- this one is usually the offender for me.
module-switch-on-connect <-- have also found this one in a distro or two.

default.pa before:

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### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect
load-module module-switch-on-port-available

default.pa after:

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### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect
#load-module module-switch-on-port-available

Now it's just part of my install routine. I don't want anything switching, unless I switch it!
Edited to clean it up & clarify with code tags after seeing @metalinux post below (thanks meta) and realizing I should have included the entire line and not just the important bits.

[metalinux]

Hi @Sector7361

I hope you're doing well today.

Many thanks to everyone's fantastic contributions here so far and I have picked up a lot of useful knowledge regarding commands to run for troubleshooting pulseaudio.

@Dude Guyman's suggestion I would definitely recommend trying it.

I attempted to perform the mentioned fix with the following:

1. Spun up a new Debian 11.7 VM with QEMU and installed XFCE on top.
2. Checked

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   /etc/pulse/default.pa

3. Found the only line related to

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   module-switch

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   load-module module-switch-on-port-available

4. Commented out the line and restarted the VM.
5. No issues were found after the restart regarding my audio settings.

On the VM, I did not run into the same issue as yourself before performing the above steps, when I changed my Audio Profile under Configuration, just to clarify.

Please definitely try @Dude Guyman's suggestion and please let us know how it goes for you or if you are still running into issues.

All the best!