pulseaudio is running, so it takes over control of alsa settings. Everytime the pulse daemon starts, it will reset alsa to it's own defaults, ignoring whatever you try and set. That's how pulse works and is literally one of the reasons why so many slackware users flat out refuse to run pulseaudio.
Go into pavucontrol an select the Configuration tab. You should see each audio device listed. - One for your video card (HDMI) - One for your motherboard chip - One for your USB device Do you see the USB device listed in pavucontrol's configuration tab? Does it have a name? -Ben On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:37 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Aha! That presented three options and I selected HD-Audio Generic which > > alsamixer displays, along with the Realtek ALC1220 chip, and the full > range > > of inputs and outputs. > > Problem: 'alsactl store' (entered as root) doesn't retain the settings. > When > I re-invoke alsamixer it's back to the generic pulseaudio and a single > output channel. A web search returns many hits noting that alsactl store > should work. What am I missing? > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
