This is a behavior (bug?) I had observed since F9, so I hoped it would be cured in F10, but alas ...
Whenever the X-server starts, the mixer settings of my audio system (kmix, alsamixer) get lost to some rather useless defaults, e. g. I have to manually unmute the right playback channel.
I have found out that the settings are restored correctly at system start: when I boot into runlevel 3, alsamixer shows any settings that I had made before. The calamity seems to happen when X and/or KDE come up.
My sound card is an old but rather complex one (Terratec DMX6Fire 24/96) which has been well supported by the ALSA-drivers for years now.
Thanks in advance for any pointers Klaus
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:20:38 +0100 Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage@gmx.de wrote:
Whenever the X-server starts, the mixer settings of my audio system (kmix, alsamixer) get lost to some rather useless defaults, e. g. I have to manually unmute the right playback channel.
Just let me quickly chime in to tell everybody that I have similar problems (muted sound upon system/X start).
/W
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 19:20, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
This is a behavior (bug?) I had observed since F9, so I hoped it would be cured in F10, but alas ...
Whenever the X-server starts, the mixer settings of my audio system (kmix, alsamixer) get lost to some rather useless defaults, e. g. I have to manually unmute the right playback channel.
I have found out that the settings are restored correctly at system start: when I boot into runlevel 3, alsamixer shows any settings that I had made before. The calamity seems to happen when X and/or KDE come up.
My sound card is an old but rather complex one (Terratec DMX6Fire 24/96) which has been well supported by the ALSA-drivers for years now.
Thanks in advance for any pointers Klaus
Hi Klaus.
Just a thought. When booting up alsactrl restore is run, and restores the alsamixer settings to what they were when you last shutdown. Now when you login to KDE, Kmix can mess with these settings.
have a look in Kmix, Settings, configure Kmix, and uncheck the box "Restore volumes on login", if that is checked. I have found that to be a problem with restoring the sound settings correctly with many Fedora versions when using KDE.
Just a thought.
Nigel.
Nigel Henry wrote:
Hi Klaus.
Just a thought. When booting up alsactrl restore is run, and restores the alsamixer settings to what they were when you last shutdown. Now when you login to KDE, Kmix can mess with these settings.
have a look in Kmix, Settings, configure Kmix, and uncheck the box "Restore volumes on login", if that is checked. I have found that to be a problem with restoring the sound settings correctly with many Fedora versions when using KDE.
Just a thought.
Thanks, Nigel, it was more than just a thought, kmix was the culprit! Unchecking "Restore volumes on login" in kmix' settings did it. Klaus