On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Ken Locarnini wrote: > > Caveat: if alsaconf succeded in configuring your soundcard and you want > your sound modules to stay loaded at all times add these couple of lines > at the very end of the /etc/modules.conf file that was changed by alsaconf: > > # -- Keep modules from being autocleaned > add options -k snd-card-0 > > RedHat has an autoclean process that runs every 10 minutes and removes > kernel modules that have not been used for a while. > > Ken > Cool - thanks for the response. This is Slack 9.0 and I wrote the modules.conf file according to the ALSA docs. I added that line and will see if it works after the next module reload. JB > John Bleichert wrote: > > Hello All > > > > On this workstation here at work I never log out from Monday morning to > > Friday evening, sometimes longer, but still every morning when I come in I > > have to run alsamixer to unmute and bring up the volume on my sound card. > > What can I do to keep alsa from "timing out" like this? This is an > > intel8x0 chipset that otherwise works fine. > > > > Thanks - JB > > > > // John Bleichert > > // syborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > // John Bleichert // syborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx