Fix sound mute in Kali Linux on boot

If you’ve installed Kali Linux then you already know that the sound option is mute or disabled at the boot. No matter what you do, next time you restart Kali Linux, you will again have sound mute in Kali Linux on boot. You might want to start Kali Linux with a great sound effect (Ka-BOOM!!) or you probably spend a few moments to unmute sound and then turn on the volume. After sometime, this gets annoying and you start looking into the wide world of web (actually the correct term is World Wide Web aka WWW but you already knew that!) and ended up here. So let’s not wait more and fix this issue once and for all.

In this guide we will fix 2 things

1. Fix sound mute in Kali Linux on boot time.
2. Keep that settings and volume from previous session.

Fix sound mute in Kali Linux on boot

Follow the steps below to fix sound mute in Kali Linux on boot

Go to Applications > System Tools > Preferences  > System Settings > Sound to bring up the same options.

Now you should see the following screen:

• Use the Output volume slider to ON, shown similar the screenshot above. That’s it you’re done. Close Sound window.

Debian and Kali Linux users also see this warning “(warning) in Kali Linux and Debian problem during boot time”. If you’re here looking for a solution follow this other guide Fixing PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions … (warning) in Kali Linux and Debian 

Finally restart to confirm

Once restarted, your Kali Linux should retain volume control and this should fix sound mute in Kali Linux on boot.

Hope this was helpful to you. 

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