On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:45:55AM -0500, Joel Ebel wrote:
Most of the time it's up to you to store the setting. I haven't seen any distributions that automatically save the alsa settings on shutdown,
This is the exact opposite of my experience. In Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora Core, Slackware, Mandrake, and Gentoo, the settings are saved on shutdown and restored on (re)boot.
I just logged into a few boxes I have access to, and I stand corrected on Debian and Fedora. Neither are my distribution of choice. They do store mixer settings on shutdown. Ugh.
/me hurries to comment out that part of the script he's using in a production audio environment because he thinks it's a terrible idea.
However, I will not concede that Slackware stores mixer settings on shutdown. It may be possible that the graphical environment you use does this for you, but the Slackware shutdown scripts have no mention of alsactl. And that's the way I like it. I know where I want my mixer settings, and I like asound.state to hold that. A reboot should put the system into a known state, including where the mixer settings should be. If they got messed up in a session, I don't want that to be saved after a reboot.
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