Hello b0uncer....
This was the first few of some small but extremely imp problems that I had faced, however, with some assistance and logic, I overcame it very soon...
Below is the link to my post labeled "Volume Control in GNOME"
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ntrol+in+gnome
And to make things easy for you, i'll paste my last reply below....however, if you wanna take a look at the entire thread, you are welcome...
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Hi Everyone!....
Firstly, a big thanks to Alex for helping me get my issue resolved.
However, just for the benefit of those, who are quite new to Linux or those who aren't able to resolve the Volume issue....I'd like to restate the problem and the solution...
The Issue
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The Volume Settings in RH 9( GNOME ) are automatically reset to the defaults every time the system starts up.
The Solution
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1. I checked up my audio devices. Noticed that there are 2 tabs for sound boards namely -
(a) MS_SOUND_SYSTEM_CS4231
which is /dev/mixer
(b) Yamaha OPL3 SA3 sound board
which is /dev/mixer1
2. I already have a script load_sound_tv_radio.sh that loads during system startup. It basically loads the bttv tv tuner and sound modules in memory at the time system starts up. This script is placed in /usr/local/bin.
The above script is called from the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local which is pasted below for reference....
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
#Executes the script that loads sound,tv, radio modules and sets the volume settings at startup
/usr/local/bin/load_sound_tv_radio.sh
3. In this script, I also add lines that inititalize the new values for the Volume Settings...
Below is the complete script load_sound_tv_radio.sh for reference.
#Initialize the sound module
modprobe opl3sa2
#Initialize the settings for Tv Tuner Modules
modprobe tuner type=5 debug=1
modprobe bttv card=2 radio=1 pll=1
#Initialize the default Volume settings for MS_SOUND_SYSTEM_CS4231
/usr/bin/aumix -d /dev/mixer -v100 -w100 -s100 -p100 -l100 -c100
#Initialize the Volume default settings for Yamaha OPL3 SA3 sound
/usr/bin/aumix -d /dev/mixer1 -v90 -b75 -t75
I hope this post will be of help to my friends at LQ. At the end, a big thanks to everyone who has taken the effort to solve this small but extremely vital issue.
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Regards,
amit