The volume automatically goes back to 40%

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OMlx Rome, nvidia drivers.

I found an annoying but, its not terrible but everytime I install something or restart my computer the volume automatically goes back to 40%. I do not know if this is something within KDE or a bug. Either way just wanted to make you aware.

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Edit the files /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service and /usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service
In both of them, under [Unit], add

ConditionUser=!root

then: systemctl daemon-reload and try again

2024-12-04

Looks like making the change to only /usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service corrects this issue for me.

This needs a bug report, I did not file one thinking it was specific to my hardware only.

$ inxi -A
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition
    Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
    driver: N/A
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.0-desktop-0.rc7.1omv2490 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active

Would be helpful if someone has time to file a bug-report on this.

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Let me file that for you Ben.

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We are aware of it already. @bero has probably already fixed it for future releases.

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Thank you sir.

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I was having the same problem and can confirm that this workaround fixed it for me. Changing it only in the wireplumber.service file was enough to fix it.

EDIT: I may have spoken a little too soon. It usually remembers my volume setting after rebooting now, but sometimes it gets set back to 45% again.

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Try this:

ConditionUser=!root
ConditionUser=!sddm
ConditionUser=!@system

That is the new default setting in Cooker and will be in ROME upon the next major upgrade and in Rock/6.0 when that is released.