Ubuntu
alsa-utils package

  1. Bug #208920
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 208920

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: PCM volume too high after upgrade to Hardy

I spoke to Daniel Chen on irc about this bug and he indicated that capturing the file '/var/lib/alsa/asound.state' before and after upgrading would be helpful. He also said the following:

15:19 < crimsun> bdmurray: I briefly spoke with someone in +1 about writing a script to parse the state file (/var/lib/alsa/asound.state) parameters on dist-upgrade (well, really between different ALSA-driver versions). This is likely the culprit you guys are seeing - particularly if it's reproducible simply on dist-upgrade (from foo to hardy) in the cli with aplay or paplay

and:

15:21 < crimsun> bdmurray: http://wiki.steenbe.nl/extra/alsachk (by osteenbergen); I don't know if that URL remains valid