Hi. Marv. I don't believe that Arts being started or stopped has anything to do with the mixer config. RH9 as you say has the KDE mixer config in control centre/sound & multimedia/mixer, as has FC1 which uses KDE 3.1.4-9.legacy, and FC2 which uses KDE 3.2.2-8.FC2. Debian Sarge/Etch which uses KDE 3.3 has now moved the mixer config to Kmix, as has Gentoo which I have KDE 3.4 on. Kmix does not allways install with the menubar showing. You have to right click on the main Kmix panel with the sliders, then have the option to show menubar, then settings/Kmix configure, and you have access to this annoying "load volumes at startup" checkbox. All the best. Nigel. On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 9:53 pm, M P Smoak wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 7:39 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:28 -0600, Dave Price wrote: > > > > Nigel, > > > > > > > > Yes, I am using KDE. I have now read the alsactl man > > > > page, and run (as sudo ) 'alsactl store' > > > > > > Why is KDE so stupid? > > > > > > Lee > > and > > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 15:52, nigel henry wrote: > > Hi Lee. You may well ask. Alsactl restores the settings, and > > then KDE with it's "restore volumes at startup" changes them > > to what was there when you first installed Alsa. It would be > > much better if KDE could be convinced to leave the "restore > > volumes at startup" unchecked. It would save a lot of > > confusion. Nigel. > > Well, on my Planet/RH9 sys there is a checkbox in KDE Control > Center under Sound and Multimedia, Sound System, Mixer that is > labeled "Load volumes on login". It's checked on my machine. > > But I really don't know how it functions ie what it does. aRTs > is the default for KDE and my machine does not start arts on > KDE startup (check box on the aRTs tab is not checked). I rarely > turn this sys off or reboot and rarely logout of Xwindows; maybe > this evening I'll try to see if the Loadvolumes check box does > anything with arts not running. > > I use Qamix version 0.0.7; it doesn't have a save-settings menu > item or button. > > I have used alsactl for save/restore while using KDE. > > Marv
