Hi Cheryl, I know you are Debian, but in Redhat there is a script /etc/init.d/alsasound. It takes care of things like alsactl restore. All I need to do are the following three commands: service alsasound start service alsasound stop service alsasound restart As you would expect, 'service alsasound start' is taken care of during initialization. I would imagine that Debian had the service mechanism since it is very standard UNIX, but I don't know. Jim Wantz On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I wouldn't think that /etc/profile would be a great place for it; then I think > alsactl will want to restore every time I login on a new tty. > Seems to me before when I had alsa that there was a debian script somewhere that > determined whether those settings would be done or not, but there was a > discrepancy; somewhere alsa was called alsasound or vice versa, so I always had > to edit that script everytime there was an upgrade. But I don't remember where > it was. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >