alsamixer wont save settings

09-28-2005	#1 (permalink)
durty_nacho Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 84	alsamixer wont save settings alsamixer has to be re ran everytime I reboot. I run alsactl store and have /usr/sbin/alsactl restore added to my rc.local file, but my settings go back to being default (muted) upon boot. I suspect I have to re-run alsamixer because I have an entry in my rc.local file to re-run ./snddevices at boot as well, which is probably reconfiguring my card. This the only way I have been able to get sound to work (the ./snddevices thing), and trust me. I have been all over lots of forums, and I have tried everything. It's been the only way that works for me. I am running Slackware 10.1 with kernel 2.6.13.2

09-28-2005	#2 (permalink)
jens Banned Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Belgium Posts: 1,121	run alsaconf as root (should do everything for you) __________________ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire

09-28-2005	#3 (permalink)
durty_nacho Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 84	Running alsaconf does not help aid me in the saving of my alsamixer settings, even if ran as root. Thank you for your reply however.

09-28-2005	#4 (permalink)
BrunoM Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 12	Code: alsactl store should keep them settings.

09-28-2005	#5 (permalink)
durty_nacho Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 84	BrunoM The first line of my post states that I tried that.

09-28-2005	#6 (permalink)
mlangdn Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Kentucky Posts: 20	Comment out the line for ./snddevices in rc.local. Re-run alsaconf, alsamixer, and alsctl store as root in that order. Reboot - you should be ok.

09-29-2005	#7 (permalink)
durty_nacho Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 84	That wont work, the whole reason I have that in their is because alsamixer wont run until I run ./snddevices. That is what makes my card work. Alsaconf will still find my card but the card wont function until I run snddevices.

09-29-2005	#8 (permalink)
mlangdn Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Kentucky Posts: 20	I just noticed that you are using kernel 2.6.13 - you may need to get a newer version of alsa for this kernel. I am using 2.6.12 with no problems with 10.2. I do not have that line in rc.local. I am using an old sounblaster pci 128. Works great.

09-29-2005

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jens

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see: http://alsa.opensrc.org/faq/#FAQ021

Quote:

There's several ways to fix this. The easiest is to write a script with one line:

alsactl restore

, save it as 'alsasoundrestoremixer' in /etc/init.d/, make it executable:

% chmod a+x /etc/init.d/alsasoundrestoremixer

, and create a symlink to run this straight after alsasound:

% ln -s /etc/init.d/alsasoundrestoremixer /etc/rcS.d/S59alsasoundrestoremixer

This forces the loading of the mixer settings every time the system is booted.

PS: You might need to include whatever else you need to do to get it working...

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