Audio volume not save and keyboard layout configuration problems

Hello all,
I needed to register again because my old account seems not to be working
After almost 2 years without Arch due to work now I'm back to Arch again.
Everything has changed... now there is Systemd and even the installation it's different so I will need some helps from the experienced users
The installation was done yesterday and I found two issues that are really annoying me.
The first one... keyboard layout... Yes it's incredibly... I only want my system in english and my keyboard in norwegian... But all are problems for that. Before telling me to read more or search for information.... I will tell you that I waster 2 hours yesterday only for that... With no success at all.
The second one... even more stupid... why my pulseaudio keep the volumen at 100%? I tried different things... but not success at all.
So please, can you help me?
I will provide all the information you need.
Thanks a lot and so happy to be back here
Best regards,
TheArcher
Last edited by thearcherblog (2014-10-30 17:07:09)

Hello Runical,
To be honest I was following a guide to install the system and everything works ok but according to journalctl I have some problems with pulseaudio so I guess that can be the original problem.
I will paste it here:
$ journalctl -b | grep pulse
Oct 30 13:04:30 arch.colonialOne rtkit-daemon[458]: Successfully made thread 457 of process 457 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne rtkit-daemon[458]: Successfully made thread 482 of process 457 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' RT at priority 5.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne rtkit-daemon[458]: Successfully made thread 483 of process 457 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' RT at priority 5.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne rtkit-daemon[458]: Successfully made thread 487 of process 457 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' RT at priority 5.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne rtkit-daemon[458]: Successfully made thread 488 of process 457 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' RT at priority 5.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne rtkit-daemon[458]: Successfully made thread 533 of process 457 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' RT at priority 5.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne pulseaudio[457]: [pulseaudio] module-gconf.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne pulseaudio[457]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-gconf" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne pulseaudio[457]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne pulseaudio[457]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne rtkit-daemon[458]: Successfully made thread 536 of process 536 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Oct 30 13:04:32 arch.colonialOne pulseaudio[536]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Regards,
TheArcher
Last edited by thearcherblog (2014-10-31 06:59:20)

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