On 2/16/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yesterday I solved the problem of missing sound on this workstation and stored > the settings (Audigy 1 soundcard). I put 'alsactl restore' > into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This morning when I booted up there was no sound. > > Running alsamixer showed that the settings had been restored. I ran > system-config-soundcard and found that I could only get white noise and a > faint sound - which was where I started from yesterday. Experimentation > quickly found that one setting, Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack, was being > switched on every time I ran the test sound. It must be off, for sound to > work properly. > > I suspect that what is happening at boot-time is that alsactl is being > restored, but then Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack is being switched back > on when the start-up sound should occur. I don't know whether this is a FC > problem or a KDE one. > You could confirm this by putting aplay /path/to/something.wav in /etc/rc.local and see if you hear anything before you login. There's some funky stuff in /etc/modprobe.conf which tries to save the current state whenever the sound module is unloaded, so it could be that a broken state is being saved instead of a working one. I've removed this, as I prefer to restore to a "known good" state, rather than the last one I was using. Chris
