[TriLUG] Two unrelated questions: ALSA and fortune

[Joel Ebel]

Ian Kilgore wrote:
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> Brian Henning wrote:
> | Actually, I discovered for my particular case it turned out to be as
> | simple as setting my mixer settings, then executing
> | % alsactl store
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> bah, you beat me to it =].  That actually just saves it somewhere, then
> you have to run alsactl restore at boot, but theres an inistscript for
> that.. actually ususally that same initscript will save at shutdown, but
> I guess not :/

Most of the time it's up to you to store the setting.  I haven't seen 
any distributions that automatically save the alsa settings on shutdown, 
but I don't use many different distributions, so some may exist. 
Usually, you would run alsaconf after setting up the machine to set up 
your conf.modules/modules.conf/modprobe.conf/modprobe.d or whatever the 
module file du jour is for your sound card.  alsaconf also sets some 
reasonable defaults for mixer settings and stores the result in 
/etc/asound.state.  Or in some cases, /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.  Most 
distributions have a startup script that check to see if asound.state 
exists, and if it does, restore those settings.

Joel