[clue-tech] Sound on compaq armada

[Angelo Bertolli]

Dan Harris wrote:

>
> On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>
>>
>> You know I'll have to double check on ALSA.  I'm sure I'm using  ALSA 
>> on my desktop because it's the only thing that knows how to  handle 
>> the sound card.  I'm not sure what zero is, but on the  laptop the 
>> sound is always set to the exact middle in the gnome  volume control 
>> dialog.  That's what I use to increase the volume:   the gnome volume 
>> control.  Honestly I think the job of keeping  settings like this is 
>> the responsibility of gnome.  Shouldn't  personalized settings in 
>> general just be "set" on login by gnome?
>>
>>
>
> This could be handled in a variety of ways, but the "proper place"  
> for it is in the ALSA init scripts.  I am currently facing this same  
> problem on my new MythTV box.  I found some alsa commands on the  
> mythtv docs that I incorporated into a simple shell script.  I plan  
> to put that in the init scripts at some point, but it seems to me  
> that once you type "alsactl store", it should know to reset those at  
> boot when /etc/init.d/alsa is called.

Well, as it turns out I wasn't using ALSA.  After installing, it 
remembers my settings automatically.

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