From owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Mon Aug 3 17:25:35 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFC69B2917 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:25:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450CC19B1 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:25:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 41E879B2916; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: gnome@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417C99B2915 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:25:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32E1119B0 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:25:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id t73HPZcE098670 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:25:35 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 202062] audio/pulseaudio: New audio connection resets "mixer" to 75% volume. Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:25:35 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Type: request Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:25:35 -0000 ken@pcbsd.org has reassigned Bugzilla Automation 's request for maintainer-feedback to gnome@FreeBSD.org: Bug 202062: audio/pulseaudio: New audio connection resets "mixer" to 75% volume. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202062 --- Description --- General Description: Occasionally when using the system and running a number of different apps (audio/pithos, www/firefox with pulse enabled, others), the audio volume of the system (as shown by the "mixer" utility) will get reset back to 75%. In particular, this seems to occur when a new application which uses PA is started and/or a new audio stream/thread/(whatever the terminology is) is created to output a sound from the app. Example: 1) Start pithos to listen to music. 2) Start Firefox and sign in to Slack 3) Get a notification on Slack and Firefox plays the little "ping" sound - as soon as the notification sound is about to play, the entire system volume drops from 100->75% (as shown by "mixer"). However, any future notification sounds from Firefox (at least for the current desktop session) do not modify the overall system volume again. This seems to imply it is an issue with the first-time init routines for a PA stream not taking the current system volume into consideration, but I have not been able to track it down any more than that. Versions (although this happened with older versions as well): pulseaudio: 6.0_2 Firefox: 39.0,1 (with Pulseaudio build option enabled)