----- Original Message ---- From: Jurgen Kramer <gtm.kramer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 2:00:28 PM Subject: Re: F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume? 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 > -- Jurgen, Valent opened up a Bugzilla entry for this issue and he wrote this in an email to the list. Please consider adding your vaulable feedback on this bugzilla entry: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247468 Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
