[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#556086: alsa-utils: aumix and alsactl state incompatible?

[arne anka]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.21-1
Severity: normal

after every boot, my audio is muted.
looking into aumix it shows the controls Volume and Pcm 2 set to zero --
although the were set to sensible values upon shutdown.
Pcm 2 only knows 0 or 100 and has to be 100 to make Volume work at all.
at boot the message
"Saved ALSA mixer settings detected; aumix will not touch mixer."
is displayed, the saved alsa state (/var/lib/alsa/asound.state) shows
the timestamp of the last shutdown.

alsamixer's controls do not correspondend (in an easy to grasp way) to
the controls of aumix, but apparently there's nothing representig aumix'
Pcm2.

due to the user-hostile style of alsa's state files i am unable to
understand, waht exactly the state file stores -- but apparently it does
in no way help to restore sane values upon boot.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.21a-1      shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                     2.10.1-7       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncursesw5              5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.21+dfsg-2  base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.11-1         tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                      147-4          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-4.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.21+dfsg-2 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.4-3     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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