Alsa question
 

i all, i am running Slack 9.0 and i installed alsa drivers in order to have sound with my gigabyte GA-7vaxp Ultra mother board.
Everithing works correctly, but everytime i run Slack i have to code amixer set Master 70 on. Is it possible set it without writing this istuction everytime?

You can usually use alsamixer to set the volume levels then theres another alsasomething one to save them. That works for me.

alsactl store

Thats it, thanks :P

Alsa what?

just set all of your sound how you want it and then type
'alsactl store' in the console

kM

Thank you for your suggestion.
I tried, but if i exit X and run it again i have to repeat again alsamixer and on.
Does it exist some file to modify?

You've probably already found the answer, but if not, this is it
in a more verbose answer.

As a normal user issue the command
$ alsamixer
and unmute all the channels with the M key of your keyboard.
Then turn up your volume as you wish.

Then login as root and issue the command
# alsactl store
which will store your settings permanently.

I tried with everything, but everytime i start X there is no sound. I think it ignore /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
I would like to know from wich file it takes informations, but i am a linux newbie and i do not know.

It sounds like you need to add
alsactl restore
to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local
I think that's the command that you need, but I just woke up and im not awake yet. I'll try to look into it more later.

-kM

Already added, but it seems it ignore that file. I think it takes the the values from another file. Sure not from rc.local.

Is rc.local executable? ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.local will show if it is.

Yes it is. I did chmod 777 to be sure, but Master is still mute! Sigh!!!
I heard something about run levels. Is it possible is there the solution?

When you are running X, are you running a sound server like arts or esound? If so, these may be changing the volume levels. Either way, the wm/desktop environment you are running is returning the settings back to what it thinks they should be. Open a graphical volume control program and have a look.

If this is the case, open a terminal and run alsactl store and reload your volume control. If possible, ask it to save settings.

Hope this helps.

TheMuso

Thank you The Muso, this seems to be the right way.
In fact when alsa values are ok in text mode, but they change in X.
Where can i find out wich server i am running?
I do not understand how to fix the problem.
Thank you.