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First of all, I'd just like to celebrate that this is the first post I've been able to type from this laptop!
Second, I'm having a slight problem with sound. I'm not too familiar with how sound works under Linux, but I know I had to run alsaconfig to set everything up. Now, even though my alsamixer settings never change and are all at the correct levels, I don't get any sound from the machine. The only way I've found to get it to work is to go into kmix, move the two sliders on the left up (they're initially at zero), and then play the sound. This works for the session, but everything is back to zero again after I reboot, even if I choose the "Set as default configuration" option in kmix. Why is this happening, and how can I fix it?
I forgot to mention... I use fluxbox, not KDE. That's probably why the "Save current volumes as default" isn't working, since kmixer isn't loading every time. That was just a tool I found that would temporarily fix the problem, but I'd like to get my master volume set to an acceptable level by default on startup using Slackware/Fluxbox.
You mean changing the volumes within alsamixer don't fix this?
Try this.
Adjust your volume with alsamixer first, then kmix.
After you hear the sound playing the way you like, go to a console and do this as root:
alsactl store
That will store all the volume settings, to be grabbed at reboot.
I forget, but you may have to add the command
alsactl restore
to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
It may already be in one of the other scripts.
Haha, <smacks self in head>. I hate when these things turn out to be something simple. I was poking around alsamixer in preparation for trying what you suggested and I realized the Master and PCM channels were muted. All's well now.
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