Re: F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume?

[Antonio Olivares]

----- Original Message ----
From: Jurgen Kramer <gtm.kramer(a)inter.nl.net&gt;
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 2:00:28 PM
Subject: Re: F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume?

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 00:19 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
>  Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>  > With F7 my volume settings for the PCM controls are always at 50% after
>  > a fresh bootup and login to Gnome.  Changing the PCM volume controls to
>  > my preferred level and saving them with alsactl does not help. What
>  > (application) can be the cause of this? I could find any culprit
>  > checking the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d.
>  
>  This is a known issue, it happened to me both times I installed FC7 on 
>  my laptop. The shutdown scripts don't save the state of alsa when they 
>  run, hence it is set to installation default every time the system boots. 
Ah, thanks. I've checked the scripts again. There is only a alsa
reference in the "halt" script, it calls "/sbin/salsa" (?). In FC6 it
called alsactl.

>  Surprisingly this hasn't been discussed on the list as often as
> certain 
>  other issues. This makes me wonder if this happens with only a few users 
>  and not everyone.
>  
>  Use the below mentioned steps as a workaround.
>  
>  1. Set the volume control settings to your preferred values.
>  2. As root, run 'alsactl store'
>  3. Add the below line at the bottom of /etc/rc.local
>      /sbin/alsactl restore
>  This will ensure that your preferred sound level settings are set every 
>  time the system boots. 
OK, I will add this to my rc.local as a workaround. Really odd that not
more people have this bug, maybe it is related to the type of soundcard
in use.

Thanks,
Jurgen

>  -- 
>  Regards,
>  विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)
>  
>  Registered Linux User #374218
>  Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
>  Linux 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 x86_64
>  My USB drives automount! :p
>   
-- 

Jurgen,

Valent opened up a Bugzilla entry for this issue and he wrote this in an email to the
list.  

Please consider adding your vaulable feedback on this bugzilla entry:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247468

Regards,

Antonio 





     
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F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume?

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
>  Valent opened up a Bugzilla entry for this issue and he wrote this in
>
>  an email to the list.
>  Please consider adding your vaulable feedback on this bugzilla entry:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247468 
I had given my feedback a while back. IMHO, this bug should have been 
filed against the initscripts package which calls salsa to save at 
shutdown but no script calls it to load settings during startup.

-- 
Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Linux 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 x86_64
My USB drives automount! :p

F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 03:00 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
>  I had given my feedback a while back. IMHO, this bug should have been
>
>  filed against the initscripts package which calls salsa to save at 
>  shutdown but no script calls it to load settings during startup. 
Surely mixer settings should be stored at logout, as the *user's*
preferences, and restored at login.  Rather than be a system thing.
Otherwise everyone's always going to get the last person's settings,
which would be just as annoying.

-- 
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Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume?

[Mikkel]

Tim wrote:
>  On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 03:00 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> > I had given my feedback a while back. IMHO, this bug should have been 
> > filed against the initscripts package which calls salsa to save at 
> > shutdown but no script calls it to load settings during startup.
>  
>  Surely mixer settings should be stored at logout, as the *user's*
>  preferences, and restored at login.  Rather than be a system thing.
>  Otherwise everyone's always going to get the last person's settings,
>  which would be just as annoying.
>   
At first glance, this looks good. But it gets a bit more complicated
then that when you have more then one user. I think a better way may
be to save/restore the settings only if you are the "console owner"
when you log in/out. You should also have a system default that
things are set to when the "console owner" logs out. Maybe this
should be an enhancement request for console.perms?

Mikkel
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F7: What or who is changing my PCM volume?

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Tim wrote:
>  On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 03:00 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> > I had given my feedback a while back. IMHO, this bug should have been 
> > filed against the initscripts package which calls salsa to save at 
> > shutdown but no script calls it to load settings during startup.
>  
>  Surely mixer settings should be stored at logout, as the *user's*
>  preferences, and restored at login.  Rather than be a system thing.
>  Otherwise everyone's always going to get the last person's settings,
>  which would be just as annoying. 
Mixer settings *are* being stored at shutdown time. Just that they 
aren't getting reloaded when the system boots. See this[1] for more details.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247468

-- 
Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Linux 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 x86_64
My USB drives automount! :p