[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#544856: alsa-utils: Save and restore levels over hibernate

[Daniel Pittman]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.20-3
Severity: wishlist

My laptop doesn't save and restore mixer levels automatically over a hibernate
sequence, which means that every time I wake it up I have to manually unmute
my sound card and restore the PCM output level from 35% to something audible.

At least, it didn't, until I installed the script attached into
/etc/pm/power.d/90-local-alsa that takes advantage of the
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils script to save and restore all sound levels for me
automatically during the hibernate and restore process.

I think it would be nice to provide this facility to all users, since while a
significant number of laptops are (probably) smarter than mine, I can't see
how this can actually hurt to have this happen.

Regards,
        Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.20-4       shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                     2.9-26         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.20+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         3.10-3         tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                      0.141-2        /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-4      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.20+dfsg-2 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.4-1     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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