Alsa sound devices on Debian

[David Backeberg]

Two things you should need:
1) the alsa drivers should get loaded
2) your alsa service should restore the right volume levels

Are you starting up an alsa service at boot?

My gentoo box has a service called alsasound that among other things, 
restores the mixer levels, which SHOULD persist through reboots. Mine are 
saved in /etc/asound.state. When the service goes down during shutdown, it 
saves the current settings to that file.

I recommend poking around your /etc/init.d and seeing if there's a similar 
service you should enable.

If your drivers aren't getting loaded, you need to make changes in 
/etc/modules.conf, or wherever your system expects you to put entries for
loading modules at boot.

AND for what it's worth, the alsa stuff should be independent of KDE / 
Gnome. To verify this, instead of a graphical login after you reboot, try 
logging in to a tty and playing an mp3 or something.

-- 
David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)
Network Staff Assistant
MIT Math Dept.
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On Mon, 9 May 2005, Doug Sweetser wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I can play sound on my linux box, but with each reboot, it requires
> these steps:
>
> as root:
>
>> /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices
>
> Then kmix or something to push these new devices off of mute.  This
> seams silly.  I would like all the devices created by snddevices to
> last through a reboot.  What am I missing?  I have installed all kinds
> of kde and gnome stuff, and have no idea is one of those packages
> somehow feels a need to trash a device.  My file system is reiser.
>
> doug
>
>> uname -a
> Linux amd 2.6.8-1-k7 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:47:47 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
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