It's great to hear you got it to work! I haven't had this much "Fun" configuring sound since my 1st 486 using Win 3.1. Going back to trying to automate the process. There is a command line version called "amixer". I need to do some reading though, because I haven't had much success getting it to accept my commands. I think if you type "amixer -h" you'll get a list of possible commands. I'll check when I get home. I'm hoping get together something usefull to put in the Bootlocal.sh. I'll keep you posted.
Cheers (MMM I love Scotch Yum Yum) ChuckHi Sarah I managed to get this to work. I put these lines in my Bootlocal.sh. "amixer sset Master 5" "amixer sset PCM 5". Seems to work fine. There are more options, if you need them. Type "amixer -h". ChuckChuckakan - thank you, I'll try adding that in when I get home (I'm about 900 km south of my machine at the moment ;o) ) Cheers and Beers! Sarahalsa.dsl worked fine for me with a Creative Soundblaster Live 24. I'm running this in a headless MP3 jukebox, so I went through the same alsamixer muting and commandline options with amixer that Sarah's been talking about.
I have my /opt/bootlocal.sh set to: /usr/bin/amixer set "Analog Front" 60% >/dev/null 2&1
It seems the reason that the alsamixer settings are set back to zero everytime is because it is explicitly set that way in the /etc/init.d/alsasound script. Here is the relevant section from there:
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# mute master to avoid clicks at unload # /usr/bin/amixer set Master mute >/dev/null 2&1 #
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There does appear to be one problem with this, alsa is supposed to restore previous settings when you reboot. It doesn't do that, and there is a message about it at boot time when alsa is setting up that says something like, "Unable to restore mixer settings". This appears to be a problem in other Linux distros as well, from what I've been able to gather on the web.
Having said all that, thanks for the package. It does a good job and sounds great. --Highlight the text in your XTerm by using the mouse to click-n-drag over the text.
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