SO.... did the upgrade to F1. Smooth for the most, but a sound bugaboo.

can't save alsamixer with the "alsactl store" command. it just hangs. Ideas?

Are you doing this as root? I think that's necessary.

The command writes the settings to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state by default. Check that the file or at least the directory is there and who it's owned and writable by.

There's also a /etc/default/aumix which is used to save/restore the mixer settings if and only if the other file doesn't exist...

I had the same problem with a new install of R5E50 and R5F1 on my test computer. I did not have this problem when I upgraded to from R5D1 to R5E50 or from R5E50 to R5F1 on my main Knoppmyth box, however.

To fix on the new install I had to type the following right after making ALSAMIXER changes.
After that, the settings were remembered.

Eric

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Neither file exists. I'm trying "alsactl store" as root and I even just tried "sudo alsactl store" over ssh and still it just hangs.

Can I create the above files manually?

By the by, this is an upgrade that started in D1 < E50 < F1. D1 had no need to store alsa settings, E50 the "alsactl store" trick worked.

OK! I was playing around with the "alsactl store 1" command to no avail, when I tried the "alsactl store" and then just left it alone. Played around in the FE a bit and rebooted and now sound. Now the file "/var/lib/alsa/asound.state" exists! It must take a few minutes to complete and I was just thinking it was locked?

tjc is absolutely correct! It writes by default to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state which only root has write access to.

If you want to do this regularly, you can either:
1. Add it to the sudoers file, then prepend sudo to the "alsactl store" command, or
2. State which file you want to save it to (then read it from) with "-f <file>". Use the absolute path. or
3. As root, type "chgrp audio /var/lib/alsa && chmod g+w /var/lib/alsa/", which will allow everyone in the group "audio" to write to the director.

The alsactl man page is very clear, if you want to know more.

Mike

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