[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#602887: alsa-utils: only stores levels for current system instead of supporting booting on multiple systems

[Paul Wise]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.23-3
Severity: wishlist

One of my Debian installs is booted on different machines, I frequently
move the disk between my laptop and desktop. One of the issues I
encountered is that the audio levels are reset when I move between
machines. Specifically the Master Front level is set to zero. I also get
warnings about cards about being present during bootup.

The ideal situation would be:

Store the mixer settings in a per-system or per-audio-device file.

Have a cron job delete mixer settings for cards that haven't been used
in 6 months or so.

This would help roaming folks who boot Debian from a USB key on various
machines, including Internet cafes.

Ideally pulseaudio would take over this job (since it is per-user) but
alsa-utils needs to also do it for those who don't use pulseaudio.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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