[linux-audio-user] auto-restoring alsamixer settings?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Sat Mar 17 16:52:03 EDT 2007


On 3/17/07, Dragan Noveski <perodog at gmx.net> wrote:
> hi list,
> yesterday i successfully replaced the debian alsa drivers/libs/etc with
> the selfcompiled ones, v1.0.14rc3 - and (almost) everything works wonderful!
>
> well, the only thing what does not work as previously is that the
> alsamixer settings for my onboard device  (intel8x0) are not restored
> after a reboot - everything muted!
> if i plug the usb interface, the mixer is not muted, but there are some
> old settings saved, and if i change the settings, on the next boot they
> are not restored too.
> plugin the multiface(cardbus) works wery well, since we use the
> 'hdspmixer' and not the 'alsamixer' for that one.

Debian stores asound.state in a non-standard location (somwhere under
/var IIRC).  I think the easiest fix is to replace your self-compiled
alsactl with Debian's, or hack the startup/shutdown scripts to
save/restore asound.state where you want it.

Lee



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