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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:31 pm    Post subject: Sound is muted after booting a fresh gentoo installation Reply with quote

Hi,
my fresh Gentoo installation with gnome windowmanager mutes the soundcard on startup. The user has to unmute it manually after each reboot.
How can I get an unmuted soundcard after reboot?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hathill,

You need to save the alsa settings across reboots.
Add alsasound to your default runlevel, then start the alsasound service.

When you shut down now, your settings will be saved.
When alsasound starts after your next boot, the settings will be restored.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried
Code:
# rc-update add alsasound default

but this seemed not to be sufficiant.

How can I save settings?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jonasstein,

rc-update add alsasound default
is correct but it does not start the service, so at shutdown, you settings were not saved.

Now that you have rebooted and set up your mixer settings again, it should work on subsequent boots.
The alsasound service will have started on this boot.

Thats why I suggested that you start alsasound manually before shutdown.

Does
Code:
/etc/init.d/alsasound start
produce a waring about alsasound already being started?
It should - or an error message about why it could not be started.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, there is a warning:
Code:
# /etc/init.d/alsasound start
 * WARNING: alsasound has already been started
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jonasstein,

It should save your settings when you shut down and restore them when you start up.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

now it works. Thank you.
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