ALSA in YDL 4.0.1 + 4.1

[Paul Higgins]

Thanks much for your help!  I use a terminal pretty much daily, but I'm 
nowhere near fluent with it.  I would have had no idea how to do what you 
recommended.  Your approach resulted in a fairly sizeable 
"findalsa" file, which I moved to my /home dir (I prefer to look at text 
files with the Kate editor when I don't need to modify them).  Anyway, 
believe it or not, I didn't find any obvious config file anywhere, but I did 
find a few clues.

In "findalsa", I found several references to alsactl, including a 
manpage.  I looked up the manpage in Konqueror ("#alsactl") and found that all 
soundcard state information is stored in /etc/asound.state.  
Edited /etc/asound.state, and so far, so good.  On reboot, the card is coming 
up in the proper state as expected.

By the way, this is a G3 "Snow" 900 MHz iBook; the soundcard is identified as 
"PowerMac Snapper" in alsamixer.  Also, unlike alsamixer which can be changed 
by a regular user, you must be root (su -) to use the alsactl command.

Hope that helps anyone having problems with getting soundcard settings to 
"take" when rebooting.

-PRH

On Sunday 05 November 2006 11:24, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Hi Paul:
>
> I did the following as superuser:
>
> [root at arakus aguila]# find / -name "*alsa*" -print > findalsa
> [root at arakus aguila]# vim findalsa
>
> Explanation:
>
> The find command is instructed to search for any file starting from / where
> the expression alsa appears and regardless of any expression (*) appearing
> either before or after it.  The find command is also instructed to output
> its results to a file which I called findalsa.
>
> The next line invokes the editor of my choice (vim) to open that file.  You
> may choose any editor you are familiar with to review either findalsa or
> whatever other filename you may choose to use instead.
>
> Paul, the above would have worked under any version of YDL.  Perhaps it
> could be to your advantage to consider the following resources as well:
>
> http://www.ftlinuxcourse.com/
>
> http://tldp.org/
>
> Good Luck....
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