ALSA has been successfully installed on my system (A7V266-MX , ASUS motherboard , Via Sound) , and it runs only after I run alsaconf . I have to run it a root each time . Is there no way to fix this ?

do you have alsa's start scripts in you rc.d directories?


Druisgod

No . Where can I find the starting script ?

I'm rather a newbie , so please tell me the exact location of the rc.d directory/directories .

Usually in /etc/rc.d/rc(5, 4, or whatever number).d. Usually those are just links to /etc/rc.d/init.d/. In there look for alsa. Make sure in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d you have a Sxxalsa with the x's being a number.


Druisgod

And if they're not there ? What do I do then ?

Install the alsa-libs package. I believe thats where they come from.


Druisgod

I thought (I may be wrong, someone corrects me)
that each time you boot up, you always execute

$HOME/.bashrc

So put your extra scripts there. However, if a
different user log in, he/she will have to run
those scripts.

Others, is there a (bash or something) script
that always run no matter which user logs in?
That's would more practical (I think).

Sheng-Chieh

Any bash config files be it bashrc or profile run globally from /etc. It should work like this. If /etc/profile exists then source it and then source .bash_profile. Same for /etc/bashrc and .bashrc. I think however that getting the run scripts in place would be the right thing to do since its alsa's way. As a note to the previous entry I made, Im not sure which package the run scripts get loaded out on - its either alsa-libs or alsa utils . . .see ALSA LINK for more details. If you go under the soundcards link on that page, they have a nice install proceedure tailored to your card.



Druisgod

I've installed the drivers , libraries , and utilities (in that order) . I know nothing beyond what the install guide told me . Even then , the ALSA drivers seem not to load at startup .

As to the install procedure tailored to my card , yes , I followed that .

I'll check again , just to be sure . How do you run a find command in Linux (RHEL 3 WS) ? I have forgotten the syntax for specifying the path where to search .

By doesn't run, do you just mean that nothing plays? This might be the issue where the volume is reset to zero every time you restart.

its find x -name "filename", where x is the directory you want to check from recursively.

Druisgod

if the problem is as p-static says, you need to run alsamixer. Unmute the entries, and exit back out. The you have to run alsactl --store.


Druisgod