I have been affected by this in both 10.10 and 11.04. I was hoping it would be fixed in Natty, but since it's not, I tried both solutions in this bug report.
Editing /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf to change the Element Speaker entry to volume = merge and rebooting didn't work for me. Editing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and commenting out flat-volumes did the trick. This particular machine uses a digital optical output, not analog; I'm not sure if that's why the analog-output.conf didn't work or not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661885 Title: After booting all sound is loud until the volume slider is slightly moved then sound works like normal until rebooting -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs