On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 21:39, david walcroft wrote: > Hi, > I have always had problems with Alsa and/or Kde in one way or a > nother,I have got down to this - in /etc/rc.d/rc.local I placed > > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore > > and it starts sound to hear 'kde-startup.wav' while booting Kde, > then when the Kde desktop activates the 'kde-startup.wav' stops before > completion and the mixers are then all at 'zero' requiring me to run > > 'alsactl restore' > > before I get any sound back. Is there any way to have alsactl restore > run when the desktop activates. > > 2.6.8-1 > KDE 3.3.0 > > Thanks david try using "aumix", set everything where you want it, then S to save. G