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Hossie
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 Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Sound muted after boot |
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Hi, everytime I boot into Gentoo, my sound is muted, I have to unmute it with the gnome applet. Im using AC97 onboard on my Asus A8N-SLI Premium with Alsa and Gnome. What can I do against that? 
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scoon
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hey there,
alsactl is used to save your settings that will be restored when you reboot.
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GetCool
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| scoon wrote: | | alsactl is used to save your settings that will be restored when you reboot. |
You shouldn't need to rely on alsactl, as the alsasound init script handles the saving/restoring of settings automatically. Verify that you have:
- Your sound card driver compiled into your kernel (not as a module). Example:
| Code: | PCI devices --->
<*> Emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy, E-mu APS) |
Note that you can compile the driver as a module, but it has always worked better for me when I build them in.
The alsasound initscript in the boot runlevel:
| Code: | | # rc-update add alsasound boot |
The following variable set in /etc/conf.d/alsasound:
That should work for you. The ALSA Guide has more details. |
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Hossie
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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'rc-update add alsasound boot' solved the problem.  |
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RealNitro
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I've been having this problem for months now. I tried just about everything. Today I decided to give it another try, and I solved it! I don't know why, but my alsasound init-script has a 'RESTORE_ON_START' that was not mentioned in my conf.d/alsasound file. I added
| Code: | | RESTORE_ON_START="yes" |
to my conf.d/alsasound script, and my sound was restored at boot time!  |
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Chabbrik
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Hello there,
I have similar problem there. After I worked with alsamixer (needed to tweak a few things to make Skype working) my sound setting are no longer saved and restored after reboot.
This is my etc/conf.d/alsasound script:
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# ENABLE_OSS_EMUL:
# Do you want to enable in-kernel oss emulation?
# no - Do not load oss emul drivers
# yes - Load oss emul drivers if they're found
ENABLE_OSS_EMUL="yes"
# RESTORE_ON_START:
# Do you want to restore your mixer settings? If not, your cards will be
# muted.
# no - Do not restore state
# yes - Restore state
RESTORE_ON_START="yes"
# SAVE_ON_STOP:
# Do you want to save changes made to your mixer volumes when alsasound
# stops?
# no - Do not save state
# yes - Save state
SAVE_ON_STOP="yes"
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I have also alsasound added to the boot at rc-update
Any other ideas what might be wrong? |
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GetCool
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| Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Chabbrik wrote: | | I have similar problem there. After I worked with alsamixer (needed to tweak a few things to make Skype working) my sound setting are no longer saved and restored after reboot. |
Have you checked your logs? See if there are any entries in your logs related to ALSA; it might give you some idea of what's going on (such as incorrect permissions on a file, etc.).
I don't have any other ideas right now, as your settings look fine. Really, if you have SAVE_ON_STOP="yes" and RESTORE_ON_START="yes", and alsasound added to the boot runlevel, then the ALSA settings should be saved to and restored from /etc/alsasoud.state. As far as I know, alsasound runs as root, so asound.state should be written to regardless of the permissions... |
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