SOLVED - Re: alsa-utils save / restore not working http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote on 09/11/14 20:04:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 06:12:32PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> > Pardon me, but I'm a bit frustrated on how to debug
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665
> >
> > does /var/run get saved across reboots?
>
> I would not expect so.  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.13.html
>
> > Where are the state of the sound card(s) saved / restored?
>
> I don't use alsa-utils, but based on my understanding of the FHS, I'd
> expect somewhere under /var/lib/alsa-utils.
>
> But from reading the bug report, I'm led to believe it is
> /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>
> Hope this helps

The problem was that I'd plugged the pc speakers into the "rear speakers 
output" and KDE was set to do analogue stereo output, so it muted 
"surround output" and hence the "rear speakers".

With the pc speakers plugged into the front/line output, things worked 
much better.

Thankfully I still had the documentation for motherboard handy.

Arthur.