Neal Hogan wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Andreas Ronnquist <andreas.ronnquist@meritkonsult.se> wrote:Hi! I need to do a alsaconf after every boot, otherwise I don't get any sound. This is on a ABit motherboard, Nvidia nforce 590 chipset, with built-in sound. How can I make it configure the built-in sound-card automatically on every boot?Once you set you sound settings ('alsamixer' is one way of doing so), you need to enable /etc/init.d/alsasound. Be sure to make sure that the script is pointing to the correct location of your config (asound.state) file (on my gentoo machine it is in /etc).
Debian does not have /etc/init.d/alsasound. It has /etc/init.d/alsa-utils instead... at least on Sid, which I use.
Lenny might be different than Sid, so I hope someone corrects what I'm saying if it is, but the startup script is provided by the package called 'alsa-utils'.
Andreas, do you have 'alsa-utils' installed on your system? If you're not sure, try opening a terminal and running
apt-cache policy alsa-utils
Here's what I get:
$ apt-cache policy alsa-utils
alsa-utils:
Installed: 1.0.21-1
Candidate: 1.0.21-1
Version table:
*** 1.0.21-1 0
990 http://debian.osuosl.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Neal's description of what the startup script is supposed to do is quite
correct, though. On Debian, the file called 'asound.state' (where your
mixer controls are saved) is located in '/var/lib/alsa'.
HTH, Dave W.