How do i get alsamixer so save it settings?

After each reboot i have to fireup alsamixer and set up my sound again.

I tryed to do a

after i ran alsamixer, but still after a reboot i have to set up alsamixer again, is there a way to save this?

Have you tried 'man alsamixer' from the command line?

When I set mine up I seem to remember there were a number of options for saving and also a couple of places where settings files could be stored. I think there is a command line option for storing the config, and another for loading it. Make sure you overwrite any existing settings files with your new settings.

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alright that dident work.



dident find anything usefull there.. mabye its just me who is retarded.. dunno.. on my gentoo mashine, its quite easy to save alsamixer settings, wonder why its so hard under this system...

I believe there are volume settings within the MythTV settings. I had this same issue that every time I reloaded Mythfrontend my volume would get turned down and I would have to reset everything in alsamixer. I later found a default volume setting in the MythTV settings and set it to where I wanted it and havn't had a problem since!

Basically what was happening is that alsamixer was saving the settings but Myth was resetting them

Martian

just do a few symbolic links in the rc*.d files and the alsamixer should be retain. it work for me ont he asus a8n-vm csm board after updating to alsa 1.0.10.

the instruction are as below

run alsaconf

configure your sound card then

add this

% ln -s /etc/init.d/alsasound /etc/rcS.d/S59alsasound
% ln -s /etc/init.d/alsasound /etc/rc1.d/K15alsasound
% ln -s /etc/init.d/alsasound /etc/rc6.d/K15alsasound

credit goes to http://alsa.opensrc.org/Quick+Install

i hope this help

Set your alsa correctly.

Save it to a file:
/usr/sbin/alsactl store -f /path/file

Restore the settings with this file with:
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore -f /path/file

Load this at startup by adding the following to /home/mythtv/.fluxbox/apps
[startup] {/usr/sbin/alsactl restore -f /path/file}

Turn off the Myth volume control. (Somewhere under playback/general settings. I'm not in front of my box now.) When you uncheck the box, the volume slider will disappear. Doing this will keep you from losing your settings each time you start playing back a file.

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I think I'm missing something... Why not just use the internal volume controls in MythTV? I bumped the audio capture volume up to about 90% in the recording profiles (which is still low enough to avoid distortion for me), and set the master playback volume to an appropriate level to match a broadcast signal (~75-80%) and this gives me a level pretty close to the TV's internal tuner or the DVD player. Then the TV volume can be run up or down to compensate for the ambient noise level and it's about the same for all my sources...

Is there some other setting on your soundcard that needs to be tweaked?

OBTW - Are you running alsamixer as root? Evertime I do it updates /var/lib/alsa/asound.state which the /etc/init.d/alsa init script loads settings from at boot time. Looks like it also saves the settings on shutdown...

Yes i run it from root.
tryed to do it frmo the mythtvuser with out it doing anytning else.. havent tryed to run it with the mythtv user with your new settings.

the reason i am using alsamixer is becaus i have my soundcard hooked up to my 5.1 sound system, and i need to enable those channels in alsamixer before there is any sound at all.

Have you tried alsactl save? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in this thread... Once you do that you can poke around the /var/lib/alsa/asound.state file with your favorite editor. If you have the /etc/init.d/alsa init script setup in the right run levels your settings should get restored on every boot.

i tryed using:


dident do anything, i can see it loads, but when i reboot its still not restored.

how do i set to the right run level?

just looked in my /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
it lookds odd, it looks like it hasent updated even though i ran alsamixer, and change the settings, if i look in it here, the things i changed are at 0.



if i run alsamixer and check under LFE i have set it to 70

Also see the excellent digital audio howto on the wiki.

BTW - I think you're confusing control.5 - 'LFE Playback Switch' with control.6 - 'LFE Playback Volume'.

i have read everything i could find on the wiki about it, tryed everything there, nothing helps



sadley this dident help either

You added it to fluxbox?

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no ?