[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#768665: Bug#768665: alsa-utils: state of sound not saved / restored

[Arthur Marsh]

Elimar Riesebieter wrote on 09/11/14 21:32:
> * Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh at internode.on.net> [2014-11-09 19:52 +1030]:
>
>>
>>
>> Elimar Riesebieter wrote on 09/11/14 19:37:
>>
>>> What tells:
>>>
>>> $ ls -al /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>>>
>>> Does the dir status changed after:
>>>
>>> # alsactl store
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Elimar
>>>
>>
>> # ls -al /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12711 Nov  9 17:35 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>> # alsactl store
>> # ls -al /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12711 Nov  9 19:47 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>>
>> so the storing seems to work.
>
> Hmm, are your surround settings restored after reboot or just
>
> # service alsa-utils restart
>
> ?
>
> Elimar
>

The problem was that I'd plugged the pc speakers into the "rear speakers 
output" and KDE was set to do analogue stereo output, so it muted 
"surround output" and hence the "rear speakers".

With the pc speakers plugged into the front/line output, things worked 
much better.

Thankfully I still had the documentation for motherboard handy.

Please close the bug report, and sorry for the bother.

Arthur.