Why,on my RH9 ccrma, can I not use the chkconfig command. Its doesn't appear on my system I guess. chaz On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:06, Jan Depner wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 23:32, Dirk Ouellette wrote: > > Yes, as long as you (or an init script) runs "alsactl restore" on the > > next boot. > > > > Save/restore mixer settings should work OOTB with any decent distro, > > normal users should never have to use alsactl. > > > > > > > > So how and where do I put this in an init script? > > The alsa distribution comes with a script called alsasound. On a RH > or FC system it resides in /etc/rc.d/init.d. You use "chkconfig > alsasound on" to get it to run at boot and shutdown (it has both start > and stop functions). This saves your settings at shutdown and restores > them at boot.