26 Oct
2009
26 Oct
'09
5:38 p.m.
I happened to notice one web site which said to delete /etc/asound.state
when changing configurations. I don't have an /etc/asound.state, but I
do have a /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. Should I delete it? It appears
to be ASCII with very long lines, human-readable but machine-intended I
think.
J.E.B.
26 Oct
26 Oct
5:46 p.m.
Hi Jonathan!
the asound.state, whereever it is, it has different locations, don't know if
based on alsa-version or distro. It is the place where ALSA (alsactl) stores
all the volumes and settings for your cards. For cards with more features this
can mean routing etc. I seem to remember, that it can be helpful to delete
them.
NOTE BENE: If you like your soundcard settings as they are and if there's a
lot to setup, you can try to save the settings for that card in one file. I
don't know how to do it, but it's simple. I once did it. With that, you can
tell alsactl to resotre the settings for that particular card, whereever ALSA
finds it now, from that file.
Kind regards
Julien
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8:23 p.m.
Julien Claassen wrote:
Hi Jonathan!
the asound.state, whereever it is, it has different locations, don't know if
based on alsa-version or distro. It is the place where ALSA (alsactl) stores
all the volumes and settings for your cards. For cards with more features this
can mean routing etc. I seem to remember, that it can be helpful to delete
them.
NOTE BENE: If you like your soundcard settings as they are and if there's a
lot to setup, you can try to save the settings for that card in one file. I
don't know how to do it, but it's simple. I once did it. With that, you can
tell alsactl to resotre the settings for that particular card, whereever ALSA
finds it now, from that file.
Kind regards
Julien
from the man page ( man alsactl ):
NAME
alsactl - advanced controls for ALSA soundcard driver
SYNOPSIS
alsactl [options] [store|restore|init] <card # or id or device>
DESCRIPTION
alsactl is used to control advanced settings for the ALSA
soundcard drivers. It supports multiple soundcards. If your card has
features that you can't seem to control from a mixer application, you
have come to the right place.
COMMANDS
store saves the current driver state for the selected soundcard
to the configuration file.
restore loads driver state for the selected soundcard from the
configuration file. If restoring fails (eventually partly), the init
action is called.
<edit>
FILES
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state (or whatever file you specify with
the -f flag) is used to store current settings for your soundcards. The
settings include all the usual soundcard mixer settings. More
importantly, alsactl is capable of controlling other card-specific
features that mixer apps usually don't know about.
8:36 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21:46PM +0000, Garry Ogle wrote:
...
FILES
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state (or whatever file you specify with
the -f flag) is used to store current settings for your soundcards.
What system is this ? On both Fedora and ArchLinux the default
is '/etc/asound.state'.
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FA
27 Oct
27 Oct
1:44 a.m.
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.
--
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
28 Oct
28 Oct
9:13 a.m.
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:
So, you say, it would make sense to change it? Is there a way to change the
default on ArchLinux?
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.
9:53 a.m.
2009/10/28 Bjoern Lindig <bjoern.lindig(a)googlemail.com>
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 05:44:09 James Cameron
wrote:
Huh? It's upstream decision, man alsactl:
-f, --file
Select the configuration file to use. The default is
/etc/asound.state.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:39:18PM -0500,
Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
So, you say, it would make sense to change it? Is there a way to change the
default on ArchLinux?
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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.
27 Oct
27 Oct
2:07 p.m.
fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21:46PM +0000, Garry Ogle
wrote:
Debian.
...
FILES
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state (or whatever file you specify with
the -f flag) is used to store current settings for your soundcards.
What system is this ? On both Fedora and ArchLinux the default
is '/etc/asound.state'.
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