Re: F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume?

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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 00:19 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > With F7 my volume settings for the PCM controls are always at 50% after
> > a fresh bootup and login to Gnome.  Changing the PCM volume controls to
> > my preferred level and saving them with alsactl does not help. What
> > (application) can be the cause of this? I could find any culprit
> > checking the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d.
> 
> This is a known issue, it happened to me both times I installed FC7 on 
> my laptop. The shutdown scripts don't save the state of alsa when they 
> run, hence it is set to installation default every time the system boots.

Ah, thanks. I've checked the scripts again. There is only a alsa
reference in the "halt" script, it calls "/sbin/salsa" (?). In FC6 it
called alsactl.

> Surprisingly this hasn't been discussed on the list as often as certain 
> other issues. This makes me wonder if this happens with only a few users 
> and not everyone.
> 
> Use the below mentioned steps as a workaround.
> 
> 1. Set the volume control settings to your preferred values.
> 2. As root, run 'alsactl store'
> 3. Add the below line at the bottom of /etc/rc.local
> 	/sbin/alsactl restore
> This will ensure that your preferred sound level settings are set every 
> time the system boots.

OK, I will add this to my rc.local as a workaround. Really odd that not
more people have this bug, maybe it is related to the type of soundcard
in use.

Thanks,
Jurgen

> -- 
> Regards,
> विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)
> 
> Registered Linux User #374218
> Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
> Linux 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 x86_64
> My USB drives automount! :p
> 

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