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Retaining alsamixer settings between boots

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SamK:
In OnBoot is alsa, alsa-oss and alsamixergui.  The mixer settings are lost between boots.  How to preserve them?

I am using persistent home, opt and tce on USB flash drive and not using TC backup when exiting.

tinypoodle:
See info alsa.tcz

SamK:

--- Quote from: tinypoodle on July 27, 2010, 10:56:18 AM ---See info alsa.tcz

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Tried alsactl store without success.

Not sure if it is necessary to start from bootlocal.sh as alsa initializes OK without it - but tried it anyway.  Again no success.

Is this meant to work as described when persistent storage is being used and backups are not run By TC on exit?
 
 

tinypoodle:

--- Quote from: SamK on July 27, 2010, 11:38:28 AM ---
--- Quote from: tinypoodle on July 27, 2010, 10:56:18 AM ---See info alsa.tcz

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Tried alsactl store without success.

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--- Code: ---alsactl restore -f /path/to/stored/statefile

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SamK:
The issue seems to be that the guidance in alsa.tcz favours users not using persistent storage and therefore backing up their data at the end of each TC session.  As I am using persistent storage the advice is not appropriate.

alsactl store by default creates /etc/asound.state.  This is in a non-persistent location and therefore does not survive between boots. 

I can see a couple of ways around this:

* Backup at TC close (which is unsuitable for my purposes)
* Save the output of alsactl store to /home/tc/.alsacfg/asound.state
From /etc/bootlocal.sh run alsactl restore -f /home/tc/.alsacfg/asound.state
If this works, perhaps it might be added to the notes in alsa.tcz
 

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