alsa settings: I'm really mad!

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Terry and all. This is why I'm not a big fam of alsamixer, although amixer is good. If I hit m on a control, it just says M. It doesn't say mute or unmute. In terms of the capture thing, I would set that using amixer, then finetune things with alsamixer. I just mak sure not to press other keys while tuning the settings so not to adjust things you didn't want to. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Terry Cudney <tcudney at sympatico.ca>
To: speakup <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: alsa settings: I'm really mad!


> Hi Cheryl, Chuck and everyone,
> 
> My experience is not exactly the same as Cheryl's, but similar...
> 
> Although running Debian, and doing the apt-get upgrade, etc I can't attribute it to Debian (at least I don't think so). With alsa 0.9beta11 and beta 12 I experienced difficulties with the alsamixer, such that capture was set "on" on multiple channels without my being able to detect that using speakup. I'm sure that a sighted person using alsamixer would have noticed immediately that the capture was "on" on more than one channel. It is possible that I inadvertently set the capture-on, but I don't think so. I believe that there is a big bug in alsamixer in beta 11 and 12.
> 
> Anyway, in Debian, when you shut down/restart your system the mixer settings from the current session are saved in /etc/asound.state and these settings are used to initialize the sound card on next startup. If the settings re messed up and you restart the system for some reason, the asound.state file retains the messed up settings for subsequent sessions.
> 
> My solution: Once I had my alsa settings the way I wanted them, I did an "alsactl store", then I went to /etc and copied the asound.state file to asound-state.good. Now, if ever the settings get messed up again, I'll just copy the asound-state.good back to asound.state, do an "alsactl restore" and carry on.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> --terry
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> -=> Cheryl -
> -=>
> -=> Alsa is tough enough to tame without that happening too! I have
> -=> never had any similar experience on this Slackware system.
> -=> Chuck
> -=>
> -=> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> -=>
> -=> > Ok, has anybody ever had this happen, especially anybody using debian?
> -=> > Al my setting were just fine and I didn't change them. but just now I couldn't
> -=> > get my sound to work, even with using alsactl restore. Have to do everything
> -=> > over again; all my settings are gone.
> -=> > It has to be that something that upgraded in debian woody when I did my "apt-get
> -=> > update' and "apt-get upgrade" wiped my alsa or at least alsactl stuff out.
> -=> > this is ubelievable!
> -=> > Amixer and alsamixer still work and alsa apparently still gets loaded, but al my
> -=> > settings have to be redone!
> -=> >
> -=> >
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