Hi Peter, I made similar experiences. Looks like a bug in hdspmixer. You can use a workaround by setting your defaults in a script using the amixer command and starting this script whenever alsa gets started and the modules loaded. See the section Matrix Mixer on this page for details how to use the amixer command with the hdsp: http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7024/print -- Orm Am 19. September 2005, 23:03 Uhr (+0200) schrieb peter plessas: > Dear List, > > i have the following question about hdspmixer: > > 1. > After booting, i have to start the hdspmixer application to get audio > output, i suppose the levels are muted before. > Is this an hdspmixer issue or sth. about the alsa startup scripts? > > 2. > If i close the hdspmixer and open it again, it loads the default settings > (if there are any) and thus gives me full levels on all channels. Ouch! > This also happens if i saved my levels to a preset, may it be number 1 or > others. > It even persists at saving to a file (/home/peter/hdspmixer_default.mix), > and making this the default file via the menu. > Seems like the file doesn't get loaded automatically, though once loaded > via the menu, my old levels appear. > > Any ideas are very welcome!! > > Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very > own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel