Dell Latitude L400 sound muted on every start

[Scott Kitterman]

Currently every time I start the laptop, Kmix says it's muted. If I unmute manually, sound works as expected.

IIRC, when I had Dapper on this laptop it did not do that. This is a fresh install on a new hard drive and not an upgrade from Dapper.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Details attached as requested

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

mpg321 -s '01 - Track 1.mp3' | aplay -vf dat
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Title : Track 1 Artist: Unknown
Album : Untitled - 03-07-05 Year :
Comment: Genre : Unknown

Playing MPEG stream from 01 - Track 1.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 96 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
Playing raw data 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
Plug PCM: Hardware PCM card 0 'Cirrus Logic CS4281' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
  stream : PLAYBACK
  access : RW_INTERLEAVED
  format : S16_LE
  subformat : STD
  channels : 2
  rate : 48000
  exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
  msbits : 16
  buffer_size : 8192
  period_size : 4096
  period_time : 85333
  tick_time : 4000
  tstamp_mode : NONE
  period_step : 1
  sleep_min : 0
  avail_min : 4096
  xfer_align : 4096
  start_threshold : 8192
  stop_threshold : 8192
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary : 1073741824

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et al.
          Title: Track 1
         Artist: Unknown
          Album: Untitled - 03-07-05
          Track: 01
          Genre: Unknown

And the Konsole doesn't come back until I hit ctrl c. Still no sound.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Upon further review, it appears the problem is that Kmix resets itself to muted for every restart. I suspect this is a Kmix (kdemultimedia) issue and not in the sound system.

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Hmm... I am very blind :)

I don't think I can do much more to help this bug, so if someone who knows more about KDE could take over, I'd be grateful.

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Looks like you are suffering from 61256 :)

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

From what I can tell, I tend to agree. Thanks.

The interesting thing that I found out last night is that I really was having a complete sound failure before. I have 2 L400s and the second had not be fired up since December. When I powered it up last night, I got a complete sound failure (with some kind of overload warning). After I downloaded updates, it was the same as the one we were working on, so one of the changes between 30 Dec and yesterday straightened out the basic problem and what's left is I have 61256.