[linux-audio-user] alsa mixer settings timing out

[John Bleichert]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Ken Locarnini wrote:
>
> Caveat: if alsaconf succeded in configuring your soundcard and you want
> your sound modules to stay loaded at all times add these couple of lines
> at the very end of the /etc/modules.conf file that was changed by alsaconf:
>
> # -- Keep modules from being autocleaned
> add options -k snd-card-0
>
> RedHat has an autoclean process that runs every 10 minutes and removes
> kernel modules that have not been used for a while.
>
> Ken
>

Cool - thanks for the response. This is Slack 9.0 and I wrote the
modules.conf file according to the ALSA docs. I added that line and will
see if it works after the next module reload.

JB


> John Bleichert wrote:
> > Hello All
> >
> > On this workstation here at work I never log out from Monday morning to
> > Friday evening, sometimes longer, but still every morning when I come in I
> > have to run alsamixer to unmute and bring up the volume on my sound card.
> > What can I do to keep alsa from "timing out" like this? This is an
> > intel8x0 chipset that otherwise works fine.
> >
> > Thanks - JB
> >
> > // John Bleichert
> > // syborg at earthlink.net
> >
>
>

// John Bleichert
// syborg at earthlink.net