[TriLUG] Re: Two unrelated questions: ALSA and fortune

[Lance A. Brown]

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,
> 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.

I have the following in my modprobe.conf:

install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-card-0 ;
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore
remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store ; /sbin/modprobe -r
--ignore-remove
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore
remove snd-intel8x0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store && /sbin/modprobe -r
--ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

This restores the alsa state when modules are loaded and saves it when
they are unloaded.

--[Lance]


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