[linux-audio-user] Saving Alsa Mixer Settings

[tim hall]

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 21:53, M P Smoak wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 7:39 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:28 -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> > > > Nigel,
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I am using KDE.  I have now read the alsactl man
> > > > page, and run (as sudo ) 'alsactl store'
> > >
> > > Why is KDE so stupid?
> > >
> > > Lee
>
> and
>
> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 15:52, nigel henry wrote:
> > Hi Lee. You may well ask. Alsactl restores the settings, and
> > then KDE with it's "restore volumes at startup" changes them
> > to what was there when you first installed Alsa. It would be
> > much better if KDE could be convinced to leave the "restore
> > volumes at startup" unchecked. It would save a lot of
> > confusion. Nigel.
>
> Well, on my Planet/RH9 sys there is a checkbox in KDE Control
> Center under Sound and Multimedia, Sound System, Mixer that is
> labeled "Load volumes on login".  It's checked on my machine.
>
> But I really don't know how it functions ie what it does. aRTs
> is the default for KDE and my machine does not start arts on
> KDE startup (check box on the aRTs tab is not checked). I rarely
> turn this sys off or reboot and rarely logout of Xwindows; maybe
> this evening I'll try to see if the Loadvolumes check box does
> anything with arts not running.

It is always worth disabling aRTsd. And esd for that matter, although if you 
are running dbus it's not half as much of an issue as it used to be.

-- 
cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim