Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: 2.6.17-rc4-mm3

["Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

Hi Lee,
On 23/05/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 23:07 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 22/05/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc4/2.6.17-rc4-mm3/
> > >
> > [snip]
> > >  git-alsa.patch
> >
> > I have noticed small problem with ALSA.
> > When I boot 2.6.17-rc4-mm3 everything is ok, then I switch to
> > 2.6.17-rc4-git11 - everything is ok. But when I switch back to
> > 2.6.17-rc4-mm3 PCM is mute (off), Spread Front to Surround and
> > Center/LFE is off, Channel Mode is set to 2ch (should be 6ch).
> >
> > /sbin/alsactl -v
> > alsactl version 1.0.11rc2
> >
> > This is an user space tools bug?
>
> If the mixer controls changed between those versions, then alsactl will
> be unable to completely restore the mixer state.
>
> Otherwise the problem is with your userspace tools.  I think KDE likes
> to save/restore mixer settings on its own and its ALSA support is
> horribly buggy.
>
> It would help if you determine what app is saving/restoring the mixer
> settings.

This is from my /etc/init.d/halt (FC5)
if [ $? = 0 -a -x /usr/sbin/alsactl ]; then
   runcmd $"Saving mixer settings" alsactl store
fi

but this is KDE problem :).

> Lee

Regards,
Michal

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