[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#271341: Please store and restore oss settings

[Thomas Hood]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.5a-3
Severity: wishlist

Bob McElrath wrote regarding a patch he sent for /etc/init.d/alsa:
> I have added support [...] for saving the contents of
>     /proc/asound/card[0-9]/pcm[0-9][pc]/oss
> which should contain something like:
>     quake2 0 0 direct
>     wine 0 0 direct
>     wine-preloader 0 0 direct
> and is necessary to get sound working with these programs.
>
> I suggest that the alsa folks add these entries somewhere at install
> time, or get the maintainers of the relevant debian packages (quake2,
> wine) to add them.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.5-3    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  debconf                       1.4.32     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre5-6 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1   Linux module utilities
ii  psmisc                        21.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information:
* alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: never autosave