On Wednesday 09 August 2006 16:57, Lee Revell wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:51 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 16:41, Lee Revell wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> >> >Takashi-san,
>> >> >
>> >> >Does this help at all? Many users are reporting that sound broke
>> >> > with 2.6.18-rc*.
>> >> >
>> >> >Lee
>> >>
>> >> Takashi-san's suggestion earlier today of running an "alsactl -F
>> >> restore" seems to have fixed all those diffs right up, I now have
>> >> good sound with an emu10k1 using an audigy 2 as card-0, running
>> >> kernel-2.6.18-rc4.
>> >
>> >Distros should probably be using this as a default. Otherwise, simply
>> >adding a new mixer control will cause restoring mixer settings to
>> > fail.
>> >
>> >Lee
>>
>> I already have the 'alsactl restore' in my rc.local. Would there be
>> any harm in just adding the -F to that invocation, or will that just
>> restore it to a 'default' condition always. Seems like it would,
>> canceling anything you have done & then did an 'alsactl store' to
>> save..
>
>That's what I was suggesting - just add -F to the alsactl restore in
>your init script. It won't restore it to a default state - the only
>difference is that it will do a better job restoring your mixer state if
>new controls are added by a driver update.
>
>alsactl --help:
>
> -F,--force try to restore the matching controls as much as
>possible
>
>Lee
Great, Lee, thanks. That also gave me a good excuse to expand the
operating $PATH for rc.local, recent heyu changes seem to have killed my
restoration of the config that existed after cron made the last change in
config.
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