alsa mixer forgets my vol setting at reboot.

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rcuppone · Post by **rcuppone** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:27 am

I have installed alsa driver and works fine, but each time i reboot my machine the alsamixer reset all values to 0 Volume and MUTE for all mixer channels. If i reload alsamixer before booting my setting are preserved (for example making a logout and then a new login without reboot).
Thanks

ep98 · Post by **ep98** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:49 am

open /etc/conf.d/alsa
and replace save on reboot from no to yes

Sangeki · Post by **Sangeki** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:22 am

Or save it manually with "alsactl store".

Fredde · Post by **Fredde** » Fri May 20, 2005 10:31 am

Try adding alsasound to the boot run level

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rc-update add alsasound boot

Remember to unmute Master and PCM before rebooting

gentsquash · Post by **gentsquash** » Fri May 20, 2005 6:24 pm

ep98 wrote:open /etc/conf.d/alsa
and replace save on reboot from no to yes
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My system has no file /etc/conf.d/alsa, but it does have a file
/etc/conf.d/alsasound. On my system, that file has a variable
called SAVE_ON_STOP.

Valhalla · Post by **Valhalla** » Fri May 20, 2005 11:42 pm

Do you have both alsa-tools and alsa-utils installed. I can't remember which one it is, but if you don't have it installed then alsa forgets your mixer settings.

hw-tph · Post by **hw-tph** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:54 am

Curiously enough, this started happening to me too just recently. I think it may have something to do with me running ~arch baselayout (for wireless networking with wpa_supplicant). First off I noticed all channels are muted and set to 00 on boot. alsactl store doesn't affect this at all. Second, the OSS emulation modules weren't loaded.

This will solve both problems - add the following to /etc/conf.d/alsasound:

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# Make sure the mixer state is restored
RESTORE_ON_START="yes"
# Load OSS emulation drivers
ENABLE_OSS_EMUL="yes"

Håkan

placeholder · Post by **placeholder** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:27 pm

If you run ALSA like I did without the alsasound script, then set it up this way:

/etc/conf.d/local.start[\b]

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alsactl restore

/etc/conf.d/local.stop[\b]

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alsactl store

Cheers.

lynxnyl · Post by **lynxnyl** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:23 pm

new kdemultimedia (i think) screwed it up. Putting store/restore in init scripts didn't help, someone suggested kmix was guilty, but by that time I just set PCM in local.start manually and all is well.