Alsa channels muted - why

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:10 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ivan Gyurdiev (ivg2 at cornell.edu) said: 
> > I know I saw a change about this in the rawhide logs a few weeks ago, 
> > but it's still not working for me - I have 31 volume in asound.state,
> > and yet it's STILL muted after a forced reboot. This problem has 
> > been there forever - I don't think I've ever been able to get sound
> > out of my system after a crash without messing with the mixer.
> > This is a very annoying bug, and I'd like to help track down the cause
> > of it.
> 
> Can you add strace (or whatever) to /etc/dev.d/sound/alsa.dev and
> try and capture what it's doing, and how it's succeeding or failing?
> 
> I'm assuming a simple 'alsactl restore' works to fix it?

Gah - okay I see what the problem is - I have the wrong rpms installed,
and they don't have that script - must exclude from dag repo...sorry.

* Fri Apr 01 2005 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 1.0.8-4
- replace the dev.d script with a program that calls alsactl to
  restore the volume if there is a saved config, and just unmutes
  the playback channels if there isn't one (#132575)

What was wrong with it prior to this work - isn't this supposed to
happen at modprobe time anyway?

install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx
&& /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
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Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
Cornell University