[linux-audio-user] saving mixer settings on Mandrake 9.1

Allan Klinbail allank at labyrinth.net.au
Fri Jun 13 13:50:00 EDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 02:44, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> Allan Klinbail wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm getting annoyed that every time I restart the machine (or possibly
> > just ALSA) I need to reconfigure my mixer settings. (especially for my
> > delta 66 as I like to have the adc, dac settings setup so that the
> > meters on the computer match those of my mixing desk and hardware
> > compressors.. unity gain should be the same everywhere)  
> > 
> > I'm sure this is just a matter of having the right SysV init script. My
> > confusion is that Mandrake has 3 scripts for sound.. it has alsa,
> > alsasound and sound. 
> > 
> > Does anyone know which is the right one to be using to ensure that my
> > mixer settings are saved?
> > 
> 
> This is not the answer you want but, if you only need to save them at a 
> default volume then you can use:
> 
> 	alsactl store <card>
> 
> there is a way to do it in your modules.conf file so that everytime you 
> load the modules it restores the default setting.
> 
> ex.
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci
>   options snd-cmipci id="first" # snd_enable_midi="1"
> post-install snd-cmipci /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
>   pre-remove snd-cmipci /usr/sbin/alsactl store


Hey, it may not have been the exact answer I was looking for.. However
it's a better one anyway, solves the problem and is not distro specific


thanks muchly 



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Allan Klinbail <allank at labyrinth.net.au>




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