Like the title says I wish to disable auto-mute when no sound is playing.
I’ve been meaning to ask this for over two years. I’ve looked around but I didn’t find anything related with my issue.
When I’m away from the computer for a bit and not playing any sound, my sound will mute, but the mute icon shows that nothing is muted. To get sound back I have to play music or video and turn the volume up. Then the sound will connect again and work as normal.
I launched alsamixer and saw auto-mute option and disabled it, but nothing changed.
Does anyone have any ideas?
This sounds like a issue with TLP. In case it is installed, please remove it and reboot to see if the issue is gone. In case you’re using a laptop, you may want to reinstall it again for power-saving.
Thanks pux for reply.
Can I just disable the tlp service instead of uninstalling. I like to not remove things until I know that, that is the issue. lol
The Auto-Mute Mode setting in ALSA is to disable audio to speakers when headphones are plugged in
From your description it sounds like you wish to deactivate a module in PulseAudio module-suspend on-idle that suspends audio playback sinks when no sound is playing
Use this command to add a comment tag ‘#’ to deactivate the load-module command
sudo sed -Ei '/load-module module-suspend-on-idle/s/^/#/' /etc/pulse/default.pa
Ah right that sounds relevant too. I’m going to be away from the pc for a lil bit, so I’ll see if it’s muted when I’m back, depends if I’ve been away for long enough. I’ve disabled the service, so I’ll try your suggestion after and let every one know if it works or not.
I just had a look and it already has “#” before load-module module-suspend-on-idle. So looks like that’s not it. And the disable tlp service didn’t work either.
This auto-mute stuff is really confusing I must say.
@nikgnomic
Sorry if I got the terminology wrong, I just don’t really know fully what it could be. I just know that the sound “disconnects” when not used.
The output of pacmd dump is:
Configuration dump generated at Mon Aug 2 13:31:11 2021
set-sink-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_2f_00.4.analog-surround-51 0x4cca
set-sink-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_2f_00.4.analog-surround-51 no
suspend-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_2f_00.4.analog-surround-51 no
set-sink-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_2d_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1 0x8ac6
set-sink-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_2d_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1 no
suspend-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_2d_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1 no
set-source-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_2f_00.4.analog-surround-51.monitor 0x10000
set-source-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_2f_00.4.analog-surround-51.monitor no
suspend-source alsa_output.pci-0000_2f_00.4.analog-surround-51.monitor no
set-source-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_2d_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1.monitor 0x10000
set-source-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_2d_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1.monitor no
suspend-source alsa_output.pci-0000_2d_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1.monitor no