[LAU] What is asound.state ?

[Ray Rashif]

2009/10/28 Bjoern Lindig <bjoern.lindig at googlemail.com>

> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 05:44:09 James Cameron wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:39:18PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> > >     What system is this ? On both Fedora and ArchLinux the default
> > >     is '/etc/asound.state'.
> > >
> > > I believe that /var/lib/alsa is the default location in Debian.
> >
> > And this is good, because it allows /etc/ to remain read-only ...
> > everything that needs to be written by programs ends up in /var.
> >
> So, you say, it would make sense to change it? Is there a way to change the
> default on ArchLinux?
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Huh? It's upstream decision, man alsactl:

-f, --file
              Select the configuration file to use. The default is
              /etc/asound.state.
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