Thursday Jan 15 16:44:36 -0500 2004 Joe Budafuco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > Just finished installing Kernel 2.6.1 and the Alsa > module. > > Sound works great but everytime I reboot (and the > modules are reloaded) the volumes are all set to zero > and muted. I have to run alsamixer and turn them back > on. Is there a config file for alsamixer that can be > read when the module is loaded. Looking at the man > page for alsamixer I don't see and command line > options that can set the volumes. > > Any help here would be appreciated. > > Thanks
I am running kernel 2.6.1 on Fedora Core 1. I installed 2.6.1 according to the instructions in fedoranews.org (and took about 15 minutes). I downloaded alsa (user space) components from freshrpms.net and finally after reboot run alsaconf 1.0.1 (which set initial volume levels -- and which it won't do one doesn't allow editing /etc/modprobe.conf...) alsaconf edited /etc/modprobe.conf as: # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.1 --- alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- I modified by hand: # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.1 --- alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 install sound-slot-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- (I should not have edited the ALSACONF block, but...) The `install sound-slot-0...' should read the previously saved mixer settings. The interesting thing here is that alsa-utils-1.0.1-1.fr.i386.rpm contains: /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsactl /etc/rc0.d/S01alsactl /etc/rc6.d/S01alsactl which runs ...alsactl store... Now when I booted this machine, all mixer levels were zero. There is at least 3 possibilities: 1) install sound-slot-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : doesn't work 2) At shutdown case if sound modules are never loaded, `restore' is not done, and `store' stores zero values (if alsactl always loads modules this doesn't happen) 3) At shutdown, the S01alsactl start is never run, so settings are never stored. 4) some other reason ;) My sound usage is so minimal (and I have so many production windows open just now) that I'm not interested to investigate this more just now. I hope this helps others with same problems. Tomi ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
