[vox-tech] Sound on the thinkpad [not solved]

Rod Roark rod at sunsetsystems.com
Sat Sep 25 12:48:02 PDT 2004


On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:48 pm, Jay Strauss wrote:
> >
> > I installed alsa-base, alsa-oss, aumix
> >
> > I adjusted aumix volume and got sound.  I don't know if I needed the
> > alsa stuff or not.  How would I know if I'm using ALSA or not?
> >
> 
> Spoke too soon.  After rebooting my sound is gone.  Something like a
> sound driver or something must not be getting loaded.  Also when I
> opened aumix after rebooting, the volumes were back at their defaults
> (even though I had saved them)

With ALSA you need an init script to restore saved mixer
settings on bootup.  On my Gentoo systems it's called
"alsasound" - perhaps you already have one and just need to
enable it.

Solved yet?  :-)

-- Rod


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