[ale] Sound of Silence

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Andrew Thornton wrote:
>
> I know its a daft suggestion, but I have noticed that in SuSE 9.2 & 9.3 
> often sets the volume down to nothing on my laptop on a new install. The 
> card may be in and configured, but the volume level is set to 0
> 
> I use gnome and using the volume applet you can adjust all the settings, 
> or you can go into YaST and choose the card and click the volume button.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

ALSA will have all of the mixer controls muted upon initialization.  It
has mechanisms for the saving and restoration of the volume controls
upon bootup/shutdown.  Some distributions save this information
automatically, some do not.  On my box, I set it up the way I want to
hear it at every boot, and then saved the settings.  The command to do
this is:

	# alsactl store

And then at bootup, running 'alsactl restore' from the startup scripts
will restore the volume settings for a distribution that doesn't attempt
to automatically do this.

	- Mike

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