Sound settings won't be saved

Back2Cali · 2006-07-19 15:43:13

Hi everybody!

I've got some strange problem with my sound device. I'm using KDE with kmix and also have alsamixer installed on my system.
The problem is, that every setting I make won't be saved. It doesn't matter if I'm using kmix or alsa mixer. I also deleted all my sound settings in order to create new ones, but the problem stays the same. :shock:
I don't know what to do and I need to change some recording settings in order to use Wengophone or Skype. At the moment I have to set up everything again after every reboot which is really stupid...

So, does anyone have an idea what to do?

Thanks!

jaboua · 2006-07-19 15:53:38

You have to setup sound device or device volumes? If the latter, put "alsa" in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf (since you mentioned alsamixer, I assume you have installed alsa-utils)

Titus · 2006-07-19 16:05:37

after you set your configurations (like volume level etc.) you have to type

#alsactl store

command for saving your config and also as jaboua said before you have to add alsa to DAEMONS in /etc/rc.conf file

kishd · 2006-07-19 17:25:24

Titus

I think the command is "alsactl store" as root.

Titus · 2006-07-19 17:29:28

@kishd: thanks for your warning, i have just editted my post.

Back2Cali · 2006-07-19 19:45:19

Thanks for the tips. I checked them out, but after the next start everything was set back to the settings I wanted to change. So using the alsactl store command as root didn't help. I checked out if alsa daemon was running, which it did.

So there must be another problem. I'm pretty sure that I didn't mess up before because it's a brand new installation.

What else could it be?

Thanks!

kishd · 2006-07-19 20:30:18

When you set up alsa did you use the following commands as root

amixer set Master 75 unmute
amixer set PCM 75 unmute
alsactl store

Did you add your user to the Audio group?

gpasswd -a user audio

Back2Cali · 2006-07-20 06:05:59

The user is part of the audio group and I also triedt amixer setting up my sound settings..... no luck... :cry:

I checked the rights of the asound.state but they are correct.... so this also isn't the answer...

Does anyone have another idea?

brain0 · 2006-07-20 10:53:53

This is most likely KDE messing up your settings. Read the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa#KDE_settings

Echo · 2006-07-20 13:24:40

I have had this happen to me in the past. I never did take the time to run down the problem.

The dirty way (at least until you figure out what's happening) might be to create a script and run it at boot with the amixer commands in it and anything else needed to make alsa work. That's what I did for a quick and easy fix.

Back2Cali · 2006-07-23 09:40:01

Hi!

I did what was mentioned in the wiki and it worked for all playback options. They are going to be saved now. But there's still a problem with the input settings. After every reboot the caption section will be reset to zero. I still have to increase its level after every reboot.
Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thanks for every hint so far!

Kern · 2006-07-23 14:11:45

have you made sure the config file is writeable ?

Back2Cali · 2006-07-23 15:43:18

Yes, I am sure. That's exactly why I don't know what else to do. The playback settings will be saved. Only the recording settings won't be saved...

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