[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Audio CLI Options

[Ed Coates]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Paul Ingendorf wrote:

> The alsamix program looks to be exactly what I was looking for.  I don't
> have a direct script for alsa, or any sound scripts for that mater, although
> I'm sure it is buried in something else.  I checked out /etc/asound.state as
> well and that looks like that would fix the after reboot problem but the
> reason I was looking for a cli option was to ensure I don't have to do this
> again after another update.  The script I run should setup the sound card
> appropriately just in case I've messed with sounds settings and forgot to
> set them back.  I thought I have this licked using aumix but that didn't
> enable the capture option.  I can now do this using amixer which I had never
> used before and appears to be a much better way of handling it as even
> alsamixer would have enabled at least turning on capture while aumix did
> not.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
Paul,

Here's a little trick for you.  Alsa has a little program called alsactl. 
You can save the settings when the system is rebooted, and reload them 
once it starts up.  Here's the syntax:

alsactl store   this saves the settings
alsactl restore this restores the previously save settings

Check to make sure that alsasound is started/stopped automatically on 
boot/shutdown and this should work for you.

Ed