Greetings all, I've recently installed SuSE, and am VERY happy with things so far. But, as we all know, linux distributions are.. picky. I've tried 6 diff. distros in the past 6 months, and this one had the best installation experience. Which makes my last and only trouble .. well .. troubling. I'm using a SoundBlaster Live! card and, when SuSE first installed it used the analog outputs. So, I went into the mixer and did what I normally do after a fresh install of some linux distribution: - Check A/D Output Jack - Uncheck Optical Raw Playback - Unmute everything Suddenly sound was crystal clear. Yay! Logged out. Logged in. Sound gone. Upon checking the mixer, I found that Optical Raw Playback was checked, which caused all kinds of nasty conflicts. So, instead of checking it again, I figured there must be some trouble with the mixer. So, I manually did "/usr/sbin/alsactl store" .. and "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings store". I put the line "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings restore" in my ~/.bash_profile in the hopes that it would restore them upon login. So, I logged out and in once again. It didn't work. HOWEVER, When I run "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings restore" from a command line, then everything works great. I figure SuSE has added something to the login process that causes my Optical Raw Playback setting to be set to true, when I can see that in /etc/asound.conf it is blatantly set to false. Any thoughts? Is there some script I can edit that gets executed during KDE login that screws up my mixer setting? Thanks in advance, Stephen.
On Sat August 14 2004 8:40 am, Stephen Starkey (SuSE) wrote:
Greetings all,
I've recently installed SuSE, and am VERY happy with things so far. But, as we all know, linux distributions are.. picky. I've tried 6 diff. distros in the past 6 months, and this one had the best installation experience.
Which makes my last and only trouble .. well .. troubling. I'm using a SoundBlaster Live! card and, when SuSE first installed it used the analog outputs. So, I went into the mixer and did what I normally do after a fresh install of some linux distribution:
- Check A/D Output Jack - Uncheck Optical Raw Playback - Unmute everything
Suddenly sound was crystal clear.
Yay!
Logged out.
Logged in.
Sound gone.
Upon checking the mixer, I found that Optical Raw Playback was checked, which caused all kinds of nasty conflicts. So, instead of checking it again, I figured there must be some trouble with the mixer. So, I manually did "/usr/sbin/alsactl store" .. and "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings store". I put the line "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings restore" in my ~/.bash_profile in the hopes that it would restore them upon login. So, I logged out and in once again.
It didn't work.
HOWEVER,
When I run "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings restore" from a command line, then everything works great.
I figure SuSE has added something to the login process that causes my Optical Raw Playback setting to be set to true, when I can see that in /etc/asound.conf it is blatantly set to false.
Any thoughts? Is there some script I can edit that gets executed during KDE login that screws up my mixer setting?
Thanks in advance,
Stephen.
Use AlsaMixerGui to set all your sound card options. Once set as you want them for defaults, run KDE's Control Center, Sound & Multimedia, Mixer, Save Current Volumes. Check the 'Load Volumes on Login' box. You may have to do this after every KDE update or new SUSE version update/upgrade/fresh-install. I say 'may' in the hopes that it'll get fixed in the next release! Stan
On Monday 16 August 2004 12:26 pm, SRGlasoe wrote: [...]
When I run "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings restore" from a command line, then everything works great.
I figure SuSE has added something to the login process that causes my Optical Raw Playback setting to be set to true, when I can see that in /etc/asound.conf it is blatantly set to false.
Any thoughts? Is there some script I can edit that gets executed during KDE login that screws up my mixer setting?
Thanks in advance,
Stephen.
Use AlsaMixerGui to set all your sound card options. Once set as you want them for defaults, run KDE's Control Center, Sound & Multimedia, Mixer, Save Current Volumes. Check the 'Load Volumes on Login' box.
You may have to do this after every KDE update or new SUSE version update/upgrade/fresh-install. I say 'may' in the hopes that it'll get fixed in the next release!
Stan
Stephen & Stan, It's actually a problem with kdemultimedia3-mixer! Each time you boot back into KDE, it overwrites your settings with the defaults. Remove the kdemultimedia3-mixer with YaST2 or rpm -e, remove /etc/asound.state file. Reset your sound settings with KAmix and do alsactl store to recreate the asound.state. All should be well then. I posted this the other day in another mail, but will go thru the steps again. This is also covered in the SuSE database too. 1. Remove kdemultimedia3-mixer (this has kmix and causes KDE to rewrite the default sound settings each time you start KDE) 2. Quit kamix (answer Yes to restart with KDE) 3. open a shell/konsole 4. su to root, password 5. rcalsasound stop 6. rm /etc/asound.state 7. rcalsasound start 8. alsactl store (this recreates the asound.state file) 9. Start kamix from the menu>Multimedia>Volume Control 10. Now set your volumes Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.82 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 I do everything my Rice Krispies tell me to do!
On Mon August 16 2004 1:40 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Stephen & Stan,
It's actually a problem with kdemultimedia3-mixer! Each time you boot back into KDE, it overwrites your settings with the defaults. Remove the kdemultimedia3-mixer with YaST2 or rpm -e, remove /etc/asound.state file. Reset your sound settings with KAmix and do alsactl store to recreate the asound.state. All should be well then. I posted this the other day in another mail, but will go thru the steps again. This is also covered in the SuSE database too.
1. Remove kdemultimedia3-mixer (this has kmix and causes KDE to rewrite the default sound settings each time you start KDE) 2. Quit kamix (answer Yes to restart with KDE) 3. open a shell/konsole 4. su to root, password 5. rcalsasound stop 6. rm /etc/asound.state 7. rcalsasound start 8. alsactl store (this recreates the asound.state file) 9. Start kamix from the menu>Multimedia>Volume Control 10. Now set your volumes
Lee
I have kdemultimedia3-mixer v3.2.2-6 installed. My method works for me and my default settings aren't overwritten - except when I install a KDE upgrade (3.3 next?) or an ALSA update or a newer version of SUSE. Stan
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