> Hello > > My laptop ALSA sound works with Linux 2.6 but my volume levels > (main,pcm,cd) are reset to zero on every boot. How can I preserve my > sound levels? Do I need to emerge any alsa packages like tools, utils > etc? There is no alsa currently on this system except for 2.6 kernel. > > Many thanks
Dhruba, Hi, I've got Alsa running on a couple of machines. It's very picky. I find that I do need both alsa-tools and alsa-utils installed. Once installed, there is alsamixer to set levels if your hardware has a mixer. After that Gentoo has always restored settings correctly for me, but in case 2.6 is a bit different, you should be able to run 'alsactl store' and then 'alsactl restore' to get them back. You might just look for an old /etc/asound.state file and delete it. The format changes from time to time and (for me) Alsa has not always detected this correctly. It will be regenerated, or you can do it by running the mixer. Good luck, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
