I think I need a sound/ALSA guru.

[William Case]

Hi Timothy;

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:25 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> Am Di, den 02.08.2005 schrieb Timothy Murphy um 21:24:
> > Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> > > These 2 lines should be in your /etc/modprobe.conf:
> > > 
> > > install snd-ens1371 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-ens1371 &&
> > > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > > remove snd-ens1371 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1
> || : ; };
> > > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ens1371
> > > 
> > > Although those are just for storing the mixer settings.
> > 
> > What do these lines do, as a matter of interest?
> 
> These lines cause the alsa driver state to be written to
> /etc/asound.state when the sound module is unloaded and to be read in
> from asound.state when the module is loaded.
> 
> > Are you saying that everyone should have such lines in
> modprobe.conf ,
> > or is it specific to this driver?
> 
> I have to confess that I can't tell you whether this setup changed
> with
> FC4 and isn't needed any longer. It is (was?) not specific for that
> sound module.
> 
> > Timothy Murphy  
> 
> Alexander
> 
I added these lines to my modprobe.conf.  Runlevel 6 and 5 show my mixer
settings being saved.  I was having problems with changes that I had
made to my mixer getting changed back.  This seemed to fix it.

I use FC4.

Someone else sent me similar lines for an intel sound card.  You can
check on the list.  So I think it can help if your losing your settings
and it probably won't hurt.

Regards Bill