Alsa channels muted - why

[Bill Nottingham]

Ivan Gyurdiev (ivg2 at cornell.edu) said: 
> > I'm assuming a simple 'alsactl restore' works to fix it?
> 
> Gah - okay I see what the problem is - I have the wrong rpms installed,
> and they don't have that script - must exclude from dag repo...sorry.
> 
> * Fri Apr 01 2005 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 1.0.8-4
> - replace the dev.d script with a program that calls alsactl to
>   restore the volume if there is a saved config, and just unmutes
>   the playback channels if there isn't one (#132575)
> 
> What was wrong with it prior to this work - isn't this supposed to
> happen at modprobe time anyway?

The restore that was there was fine *if you had a config*. This rework
was to make sure the values are sane if there is no config to restore.

Bill