[TriLUG] Two unrelated questions: ALSA and fortune

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:07:00AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
>   First of all, could someone remind me how to get ALSA to save its 
> settings from one reboot to the next?

The 'alsa-base' package contains an initscript [/etc/init.d/alsa] that
does this precise action:

[...]
restore_mixer_settings()
[...]
store_mixer_settings_if_allowed()
[...]

Note that you need the ALSA packages:

[...]
# Be a no-op unless alsa-base and alsa-utils are installed
[...]

> Secondly, I'm running Debian Sarge, and almost all my fortune cookies 
> are in Italian.

Just remove fortunes-it\* .

-- 
Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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