[TriLUG] Two unrelated questions: ALSA and fortune

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:45:55AM -0500, Joel Ebel wrote:
> 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, 

This is the exact opposite of my experience. In Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat,
Fedora Core, Slackware, Mandrake, and Gentoo, the settings are saved on
shutdown and restored on (re)boot.

> 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 

alsaconf is nearly useless, so much so that it has been ripped out of
Ubuntu Hoary completely. hotplug/discover handle the PCI cases. A
backend is being written to cover the last ISA ones.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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