Re: Alsa Problems with new Etch

[Jeff Goodman <jeff@waysoft.com>]

alan@patriot.net wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:30:49AM -0400, alan@patriot.net wrote:
>
> > Alsa has gone through some changes. And though I'm no expert at all,
> > you should likely provide us with some additional information to help
> > you on the way. Please provide the output of
> >
> > dpkg -l \*alsa\*
> >
> > and
> >
> > lsmod | grep snd
> >
> > and the relevant portion of (that is, the sound device portion)
> >
> > lspci -vv
> >
> >
> > Also, you may want to try running alsaconf and see what that does...
>        I ran that first and that was all that was needed! It asked
>        me a couple of questions with obvious answers; didn't seem
>        to do much. (Strange. But Wow!)

You may find, like I did, that the alsa settings get lost on rebooting. 
 A simple fix that worked for me is...
1. After running alsaconf and confirming that everything works, enter 
the command "alsactl store".
2. In /etc/rc.local, add the command "alsactl restore".

There are probably more elegant ways to fix the reboot problem, but this 
one seems to work fine.

jeff