[linux-audio-user] Volume settings aren't saved on Gentoo system

[Robert Persson]

On March 7, 2005 11:11 pm, quoth Michael Wagner:
> Quoting Robert Persson <ireneshusband at yahoo.co.uk>:
> > 1.  I can't make my changes to the mixer settings stick and so I have to
> > change them manually every time I boot up.  This is despite having the
> > line 'SAVE_ON_STOP="yes"' as the only uncommented line in
> > /etc/conf.d/alsasound.
> >
> >From what I understand, you have two soundcards, right? I had the same
> > problem
>
> once, because 'alsactl store' and 'alsactl restore' only worked on one
> card, although it said, that if it's called without a card specified, it
> should save/restore the settings of both cards...
> You could probably solve it by editing your Alsa-Startup-Script (probably
> /etc/init.d/alsasound) and replace the 'alsactl store' with 'alsactl -c 0
> store; alsactl -c 1 store' and the same with the restore part.
>
> Well... before doing that, I'd take a look at the help-output of alsactl,
> I'm not sure if the above syntax is right, and I can't check it right now,
> because I'm writing this mail on a...nother OS...
>
> -Michael

Thanks very much, Michael.  I think you put me on the right track, although it 
looks like "alsactl store" ought to work for 2 cards without passing extra 
parameters.  I ran it from a command line and it produced 
an /etc/asound.state as it's supposed to.

I have now discovered that alsasound was not in my default runlevel.  I 
presume that this was the problem, although I won't believe it until I have 
rebooted and found that everything does what it should.

Robert
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Robert Persson

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