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

[Joel Ebel]

Yep.  I saw that on a Fedora box I looked at.  It made me angry.  But 
that's ok.  Fedora isn't the sort of distro suited to what I want to be 
doing anyway.  So perhaps it's good for most people who actually choose 
to use Fedora.

Joel

Lance A. Brown wrote:
> 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]
> 
>