On 04/25/2009 11:27:52 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 25 April 2009 18:36, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > On 04/25/2009 07:53:26 AM, Dominique Michel wrote: > > > Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:59:39 -0700, > > > > > > Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > > It's my understanding that alsactl store is supposed to save > the > > > > current settings defined by alsamixer. Is this correct? > > > > > > > > If it is, then I have a bug (v 1.0.19) The (default?) settings > for > > > > > > IEC > > > > > > > 958, IEC 958 D and IEC 958 1 are [off, on, off] respectively. > So > I > > > > > > set > > > > > > > them to [on, on, on] in alsamixer and exit with ESC. Alsactl > store > > > > creates an /etc/asound.state that is unchanged from the > original. > > > > > > Must be /var/lib/alsa/asound.state > > > But maybe that your distro do use another location. > > > > > > If you want that the changes survive a reboot, you must issue > > > > > > alsactl store > > > > > > before rebooting. Most distro do that into their init scripts. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Dominique > > > > > > > Am I doing something wrong here? > > > > And cheers to you, Dominique. Fedora 10 puts asound.state in /etc. > I > > did do an "alsactl store" It didn't change asound.state. That's my > > problem. > > > Pre Fedora 10 you had run alsactl as /usr/sbin/alsactl. this does not > appear > to be necessary now, and just running it as alsactl store/restore > works, but > you still have to run it as root. Are you su'ing to root before > running the > alsactl command? > > Something else that comes to mind is if you are running KDE desktop. > Kmix is > notorious for messing with alsamixers settings when you login. > > You boot up, and alsamixer is setup via alsactl restore, using your > stored > settings, then when you login, Kmix changes the alsamixer settings to > whatever were the default settings for Kmix when you installed F10, > with KDE. > > If you are using KDE, have a look in Kmix's Settings > Configure > KMix, > and if > there is a box there named Restore volumes on login, and it is > checked, try > unchecking it, then see if your changes you made in alsamixer are > restored > correctly when you next reboot, and login. > > The above is just a thought, but worth a look if you are using KDE. Thanks Nigel. I am running alsactl as root. The environment is gnome, not kde. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
