Author: dj
Date: 2005-07-31 11:19:41 -0600 (Sun, 31 Jul 2005)
New Revision: 4858
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/credits.xml
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/libdriv/alsa-utils.xml
Log:
Alsa startup scripts updated
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2005-07-31 15:01:09 UTC (rev 4857)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2005-07-31 17:19:41 UTC (rev 4858)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!ENTITY month "07">
<!ENTITY year "2005">
<!ENTITY version "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "July &day;th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "July &day;st, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "stable"> <!--
version|stable|testing|unstable|development] -->
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
<!ENTITY publisher "Unknown">
-<!ENTITY blfs-bootscripts-version "20050709">
+<!ENTITY blfs-bootscripts-version "20050731">
<!ENTITY blfs-bootscripts-download
"&downloads-root;/blfs-bootscripts-&blfs-bootscripts-version;.tar.bz2">
<!-- Part II -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2005-07-31 15:01:09 UTC
(rev 4857)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2005-07-31 17:19:41 UTC
(rev 4858)
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>July 31st, 2005 [dj]: Updated bootscripts tarball and added
+ the alsa dev.d helpers scripts.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>July 31st, 2005 [richard]: Updated to firefox-1.0.6.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/credits.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/credits.xml 2005-07-31 15:01:09 UTC (rev
4857)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/credits.xml 2005-07-31 17:19:41 UTC (rev
4858)
@@ -443,8 +443,8 @@
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Alexander E. Patrakov</emphasis>
- for patches and suggestions to improve the book content and increasing
- the l10n awareness.</para>
+ for patches and suggestions to improve the book content, assistance
+ with alsa dev.d helpers, and increasing the l10n awareness.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/libdriv/alsa-utils.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/libdriv/alsa-utils.xml 2005-07-31 15:01:09 UTC
(rev 4857)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/libdriv/alsa-utils.xml 2005-07-31 17:19:41 UTC
(rev 4858)
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@
<title>Configuration Information</title>
<para>Probably the easiest way to store mixer levels is to set and
- retrieve them using a bootscript.</para>
+ retrieve them using at boot and shutdown. We'll use a bootscript to
+ store the values at shutdown.</para>
<indexterm zone="alsa-utils alsa-utils-init">
<primary sortas="f-alsa">alsa</primary>
@@ -113,24 +114,60 @@
<application>ALSA Utilities</application> (or any other
OSS mixer) to change this.</para>
- <para>The first time the above script is run, it will complain that
- there is no state in <filename>/etc/asound.state</filename>. You can
- prevent this by running the following commands as the
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user after
- installing <application>ALSA Utilities</application>:</para>
+ <para>The first time the dev.d script below is run, it will complain
+ that there is no state in <filename>/etc/asound.state</filename>.
+ You can prevent this by running the following commands while still
+ the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user (after
+ installing <application>ALSA Utilities</application>):</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>touch /etc/asound.state &&
alsactl store</userinput></screen>
- <para>A final note is that the lines loading <filename>sfxload</filename>
- are commented out. They are there as an example of other things you may
- wish to do in the startup script. <filename>sfxload</filename> is a
- separate package of interest to SoundBlaster AWE and Live!
- users. It is designed for loading "sound-fonts" (which are used for
- MIDI output). You may wish to delete these lines and add
- your own or, if you have the relevant sound card, install
- <filename>sfxload</filename> and uncomment them.</para>
+ <para>We will restore the volume using the stored settings and a
+ dev.d handler script that will execute when the device is detected
+ durring boot (when pluged in for USB devices). While still the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, create the dev.d
+ handler script with the following commands:</para>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>install -d -m755 /etc/dev.d/snd &&
+cat >> /etc/dev.d/snd/alsa.dev << "EOF" &&
+#!/bin/sh -e
+DEV_BASENAME="${DEVNAME##*/}"
+N="${DEV_BASENAME#controlC}"
+case "$DEV_BASENAME" in
+ controlC[0-7])
+ x=0
+ while [ $x -lt 20 ]
+ do
+ sleep 1
+ if [ -f /usr/sbin/alsactl ]; then
+ /usr/sbin/alsactl restore $N
+ exit 0
+ else
+ if [ $x -eq 20 ]; then
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ fi
+ done &
+ ;;
+esac
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod 755 /etc/dev.d/snd/alsa.dev</userinput></screen>
+
+
+ <para>You may wish to do additional configuration on a per card basis.
+ For example, if you wish to load soundfont banks into the first
+ device (card0), use the following sample script:</para>
+
+<screen>#!/bin/sh -e
+# Begin /etc/dev.d/snd/controlC0/asfxload.dev
+
+# Load GM8.sf2 for soundcard 0
+/usr/bin/asfxload /usr/share/sounds/sf2/8mbgmsfx.sf2 -D "hw:0,2"
+
+# End /etc/dev.d/snd/controlC0/sfxload.dev</screen>
+
</sect3>
</sect2>
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