On Wednesday 09 August 2006 16:57, Lee Revell wrote: >On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:51 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 16:41, Lee Revell wrote: >> [...] >> >> >> >Takashi-san, >> >> > >> >> >Does this help at all? Many users are reporting that sound broke >> >> > with 2.6.18-rc*. >> >> > >> >> >Lee >> >> >> >> Takashi-san's suggestion earlier today of running an "alsactl -F >> >> restore" seems to have fixed all those diffs right up, I now have >> >> good sound with an emu10k1 using an audigy 2 as card-0, running >> >> kernel-2.6.18-rc4. >> > >> >Distros should probably be using this as a default. Otherwise, simply >> >adding a new mixer control will cause restoring mixer settings to >> > fail. >> > >> >Lee >> >> I already have the 'alsactl restore' in my rc.local. Would there be >> any harm in just adding the -F to that invocation, or will that just >> restore it to a 'default' condition always. Seems like it would, >> canceling anything you have done & then did an 'alsactl store' to >> save.. > >That's what I was suggesting - just add -F to the alsactl restore in >your init script. It won't restore it to a default state - the only >difference is that it will do a better job restoring your mixer state if >new controls are added by a driver update. > >alsactl --help: > > -F,--force try to restore the matching controls as much as >possible > >Lee Great, Lee, thanks. That also gave me a good excuse to expand the operating $PATH for rc.local, recent heyu changes seem to have killed my restoration of the config that existed after cron made the last change in config. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
