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LuNaTiC

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Registered: 2006-01-29

Posts: 13

Storing ALSA volumes

Hi,
I've got an Acer laptop with Realtek soundcard (hda-intel driver).
Sound works perfectly except that the alsa daemon fails to store and restore volumes.
If I remove alsa from rc.conf, in gnome volume manager I see 2 soundcards, "Realtek" and "ATI HD USB".
Then I can change the settings and issue "alsactl store" and "alsactl restore" at the terminal, and it works. Of course if I reboot my volume is muted and I have to manually issue "alsactl restore".
If I add "alsa" to rc.conf, when the daemon launches "alsactl restore" it gives this error:

alsactl: get_control:209: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Capture Volume,1': Invalid argument

Similarly it fails also to store volumes at shutdown.
What is different is that with "alsa" in rc.conf, the default volume is set to max so for now I let  in rc.conf.
Another difference is that only Realtek soundcard is displayed in gnome volume manager.

Thanks in advance for any help
Greetings

fadain

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From: Pakistan

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 4

Re: Storing ALSA volumes

I also have an acer laptop with Realtek soundcard, and i am having the same issue. Can anyone help?

Last edited by fadain (2007-04-24 16:51:52)