Subject: Re: No sound from SB live!
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:31:57 -0500
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On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 20:20 +0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:29, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > > And now the confusing bit.  If I run alsamixer but DO NOT DO ANYTHING,
> > > exit, then issue 'alsactl store', then 'alsactl restore' works again
> > > OK - until next reboot...
> >
> > Sounds like you have 2 different alsactls installed.  The ALSA default
> > one saves the mixer state in /etc/asound.state but lots of distros hack
> > it up to save the state somewhere under /var.
> >
> > Use "alsactl -f" to force a restore of mixer state even if the mixer
> > controls have changed (distros should do this by default but don't).
> 
> Lee,
> 
> Everybody here keeps saying that to me - I _don't_ have two alsactl's, I 
> _don't_ have 2 asound.states (or more/any other alsactl files).
> 
> My base is Slackware 10 - a pretty clean distro.
> 
> Tonight my MIC is not working again from a reboot, and I can't get it going 
> like I did before (??)...
> 
> Every reboot 'alsactl restore' breaks on one control or another now.
> 
> You mean -F too?  I don't understand why I should have to use --force.
> 
> It's a mystery?

Sorry, no idea.  You'll have to do a binary search with ALSA CVS to find
out exactly when it broke.

Lee

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