Audio Playback always muted after boot.

[long cairn]

Alsamixer always mutes my default audio output after boot and im not able to overwrite those settings.
Any idea?

[crimson fern]

FINALLY someone else has this!

[wanton matrix]

I did too!

[crimson fern]

weirdly the symptoms are ever so slightly different

for me the audio shows at the right volume but is muted until i change the input

so maybe its not the same after all?

[wanton matrix]

Okay, so what I did to "fix" this issue was to create a shell script that would toggle alsamixer off and on, and then use VSO's tasks to run it on any arbitrary condition

[crimson fern]

that would probably work for me as well to some extent, but I'd rather this be fixed properly

though then again I dunno how long that would take to happen

[wanton matrix]

the catch is that when you log out and log back on it doesn't do its thing

I think the script was

``#!/bin/bash

amixer set Master mute

wait 1

amixer set Master unmute``

[long cairn]

how do i use vso tasks?

[wanton matrix]

vso tasks will display what you can do with current tasks.

vso tasks new is the one you want to type in.

My vso task was

vso tasks new --on-network --name unmute --command ./unmute.sh

https://docs.vanillaos.org/docs/en/vso-manpage explains it a bit better

[wanton matrix]

What this does is run my shell script when I connect to the internet

in reality, I toggled pretty much every option including --on-network so that it's guaranteed to run but that's a pretty inefficient way to do things