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bahadir
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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: gnome alsa mixer starts all mute |
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Hi,
My gnome desktop starts as mute every startup. I have to unmute and increase volumes of every channel individually every boot from the gnome alsa mixer. Is there a way to fix this and save volume settings?
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erik258
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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are you starting /etc/init.d/alsasound upon boot or in the default runlevel? That usually restores your previous mixer settings, as the hardware doesn't store volume levels across boots.
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mose
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I hat this problem too and adding alsasound on boot did the trick. |
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interested1
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, this helped me too! I got tired of readjusting my sound levels after every freaking reboot! |
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sgstarling
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| erik258 wrote: | | are you starting /etc/init.d/alsasound upon boot or in the default runlevel? That usually restores your previous mixer settings, as the hardware doesn't store volume levels across boots. |
Can you explain? How do I start /etc/init.d/alsasound upon boot or in the default runlevel? |
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aidy
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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rc-update add alsasound boot
you should read the gentoo documentation you know (the system admin handbook and all that)
it contains things like this. |
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sgstarling
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Aidy wrote: | rc-update add alsasound boot
you should read the gentoo documentation you know (the system admin handbook and all that)
it contains things like this. |
Thanks. The gentoo documentation is very good. It's just that there is very much to learn, and so much of the obscure stuff I rarely use.
I do recall some stuff about rc-update now that you mention it, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't under a heading such as: "How to Add stuff during Boot".
Anyway, now that I used it to solve a problem, perhaps the next time I need to add something to boot, rc-update will pop out: "hmmm, something about rc-update, let me look that up again..."
Afterall, I don't do this for a living. You read something once and think, "ooh, that's kinda neat", then forget it months later when you need it. But if you use it solve a problem, I think it's easier to recall the next time. Um, I hope, maybe, we'll see...  |
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sgstarling
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Ack, still have a problem.
This is what happened:
| Code: | starbase / # rc-update add alsasound boot
* rc-update: '/etc/init.d/alsasound' not found; aborting |
Which is wierd, as I do have sound after I un-mute it with a mixer. I must have alsasound. What gives? |
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mose
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| do you have media-sound/alsa-utils ? |
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dawn chorus
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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What about folks who have ALSA compiled into the kernel?
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erik258
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: |
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i often compile in and still use alsa-utils to set the volume at boot.
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dawn chorus
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| erik258 wrote: | | i often compile in and still use alsa-utils to set the volume at boot. |
awesome. thanks for replying.
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dawn chorus
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:16 am Post subject: |
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For other folks who may read this,
you have to rc-update alsasound to boot, not default. Setting it to default didn't keep my mixer levels, but setting it to boot did.
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