On Wednesday 02 March 2016 18:05:54 Len Ovens wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This has been a PIMA here for a couple years, surviving at least one > > full fresh install to a new HD. > > > > I hear a very strong thump during the bootup at about the time the > > modules are loaded, which tells me the audio is alive and well. > > > > However, when I have initially logged in and the system is ready to > > be used for whatever my urges want to, if I want to hear the sound > > on a web site as a news story is played, I must first call up a > > terminal and issue: > > > > alsactl restore > > > > Now it seems to me there ought to be someplace in the junk that runs > > after the login, to put a "/usr/sbin/alsactl restore", where it will > > be executed as me, and this problem then should be fixed, at least > > until a new install is done. > > /etc/xdg/autostart/ > or > ~/.config/autostart/ > > Build a desktop file that has alsactl restore as it's command. > > There will probably be examples in one of the above directories. > > The question I have is what distro are you using that doesn't do this > on it's own already? (I am not sure what mine does to restore sound, I > just know it does) > This particular install is a special, based on wheezy, but with a pinned hard realtime (RTAI modified) kernel for running CNC machinery. You can get the iso from linuxcnc.org.
The only audio thing running, according to htop, is kmix. I do not see any telltale footprints from PA in the htop listing. > It occures to me PA may be the thing that does this... and removing PA > for proaudio work is common. Likely, for a machine tool targeted OS, PA would be considered overkill. The other 3 machines running this install are lucky if they even have a $0.29 (USD) speaker in them to make beeps. Likely not even heard if the machinery is running. > -- > Len Ovens > www.ovenwerks.net Thanks Len. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
