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mjjzf

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-19

Posts: 10

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Can't store ALSA sound levels

I can't seem to make ALSA store my sound levels. I set the levels with alsamixer, and I use "alsactl store", which exits correctly. On next boot, the sounds are muted.
/me is puzzled.
Lspci says I have: 04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
It uses hda-intel.
I have never come across this issue before. Any pointers?

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Can't store ALSA sound levels

Do you have the alsa daemon in rc.conf? It restores the sounds. Also if you run alsactl restore does it restore the settings?

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mjjzf

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-19

Posts: 10

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Re: Can't store ALSA sound levels

How blissfully simple.
Well, I do NOW, anyway. It seems to work. I just came from Slackware, where a script runs alsactl restore during boot.

mjjzf

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-19

Posts: 10

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Re: Can't store ALSA sound levels

I should add that I am actually very impressed with Arch. Good stuff.

HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

Re: Can't store ALSA sound levels

I don't have alsa in my daemons array, but I added "alsactl restore" to my /etc/rc.local, there's another fix for ya...

virati

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Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 83

Re: Can't store ALSA sound levels

Sorry to bump an old thread but my issue is the same:

I have alsa in my daemons and I have 'alsactl restore' in my rc.local file. I still can't get my sound levels to restore. Didn't have this problem before a few weeks back.

kmh

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Registered: 2009-02-16

Posts: 3

Re: Can't store ALSA sound levels

As I remember alsa must be AFTER hal in the daemons list in rc.conf but I'm not sure...