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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Hello Paul or should I say Paps?

first: your gpg key has been expired ;-)

* Paul Wise [101109 14:44 +0800]:
> 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:

Well, just an idea:

I am using netenv in such cases. You can define a per hostname
dependend /var/lib/alsa. This is the place where the soundcontrols
are stored. As well you can define a asoundrc (etc or $home) per
hostname for the diffrent sound devices and you're done.

> 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.

Isn't that to complicated?

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

Nice idea, but you know unixes are providing many solutions and are
always a challenge. If one uses a stick or hd for more than one
machine we can expect that user can handle those comfortable ideas
with provided tools by himself, isn't it?

> 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.

Elimar


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