[mythtv-users] alsa mutes after rebooting, super mount, and comments on Jarod's fedora guide

[Ian Forde]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:15, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2003, at 16:35, DBakker at arrayasolutions.com wrote:
> 
> > Actually in the alsa docs they have you add some lines to your
> > modules.conf to store and restore your settings when you  un/load your
> > alsa modules (reboot). I never went back to figure it out so I just use
> > the restore in my rc.local
> >
> > Im sure someone in this list can post thier pre and post lines for alsa
> > from their modules.conf if you are intrested.
> 
> Okay, after further review of the alsasound init (and shutdown) script, 
> it appears the store settings section is commented out. You can either 
> un-comment these lines:
> 
>    # if [ -x $alsactl ]; then
>    #   $alsactl -f $asoundcfg store
>    # else
>    #   echo -n -e "${rc_warning}!!!alsactl not found!!!${rc_reset} "
>    # fi
> 
> In function stop(), if you'd like your sound settings saved each time 
> you reboot. You can also tweak your setup out to exactly what you want, 
> then manually run alsactl store, so if you screw up your setup while 
> playing around, a reboot or alsactl restore will set everything back 
> the way it was when it was working.

My advice would be to get the sound settings the way you want them (read
that as WORKING!), then do a 'alsactl store'.  Then in just do the
'alsactl restore' in a script or via /etc/modules.conf when the system
boots.  But *never* save/store the settings via those methods.

Then keep a copy of the known, good /etc/asound.state somewhere else
JUST-IN-CASE...

	-I