How to save alsamixer settings?

[little timber]

My headphones have very low audio and I raising it to 200% in the sound settings makes it distorted. Changing it with alsamixer seems to be the only viable solution which doesn't distort the sound, but the settings reset every time I reboot. Running alsactl store doesn't do anything, any ideas how to do it?

[heady nexus]

@little timber I think that's probably because we disable the Alsa State service. can you test to following to see if it works?

type in a terminal:

systemctl unmask alsa-state.service && systemctl enable --now alsa-state.service

then, try to change with alsamixer and reboot to see if it's reset again

[little timber]

I get "The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, UpheldBy=,
Also=, or Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for
template units). This means they are not meant to be enabled or disabled using systemctl.

Possible reasons for having these kinds of units are:
• A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
.wants/, .requires/, or .upholds/ directory.
• A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
a requirement dependency on it.
• A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
• In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
instance name specified.
"

[heady nexus]

that's ok, did you test alsamixer after that message?

[little timber]

Sorry for late answer, yeah and it didn't save through reboot

Any other ideas?

[heady nexus]

sorry, but I don't have any other suggestion.

remember to undo the thing:

systemctl disable --now alsa-state.service && systemctl mask alsa-state.service

something here may help you. take a look: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture

[little timber]

Thanks, I think I solved the audio being low by switching output mode to “Analog Stereo Output + Mono Input” from "Pro Audio"

[heady nexus]

ah ye, you will always want to use Analog Stereo Output

it's the standard option to use

Pro Audio is only for professional equipment with lots of configurations