Well, unfortunately I haven't found any cure for the mysterious volume
changes with the keyboard volume control. I have, however, found a sweet
workaround to this problem: never reboot. It's Linux, you don't have to
reboot. You know, maybe once a month to make the bios/setup feel wanted.
There's also a cool program called aumix. It doesn't work if you just
type aumix. That's too easy. You need to
use aumix -w [main vol percent]
and aumix -p [annoying speaker beep and modem sounds percent]
and aumix -2 [cdrom volume percent]
and I'm imagining igain might do something, but I not sure what. Probably
microphone. Problem with this beeing that some programs like mpg123 seem
to want it set back down before it starts. Kind of annoying, but I'm not
into busting open the source and finding it, so I just leave it where it
is and put a little script that starts mpg123 and then sets the volume
back up. You could also do this for an rd.c init.d file OOR I thinkthe
.aumixrc in etc means something, but I'm not sure what.
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jeff Wandling wrote:
>
> Platform:
>
> i3.2k
> suse linux 5.3 (kernel: 2.0.35)
> tri-boot: win95, NT4.0, Linux
> linksys combo ethernet card
> 3com global 56k modem
>
>
> How does one:
>
> 1.
>
> Change the volume level of the speaker so that on each reboot, it's set to the
> previous value? (IMO, one design flaw was dell not putting a variable resistor
> on the side to control speaker volume). The keyboard has a key-combination to
> reduce or increase volume, but it appears that this isn't saved in any
> persistent register.
>
> 2.
>
> Within Linux, configure it to use either a "ethernet network configuration" or a
> "modem, ppp network configuration". It has the linksys combo card working
> fine. It would be good easily switch between each "profile". URL's to hints
> would be great!
>
>
> I'll summarize to the list to cut-down on list-traffic. Reply to me directly.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -jeff
>
>
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