mixer settings on 8.0-RC2

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 18:34:14 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 16:57:08 Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > > Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 5:07:26 am Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > > >> Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> > > >>> On Monday 02 November 2009 11:22:03 am Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > > >>>> It appears that my 8.0-RC2 system (notebook) forgets its mixer
> > > >>>> settings with every reboot.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> FreeBSD mobileKamikaze.norad 8.0-RC2 FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 #0: Sat Oct
> > > >>>> 31 02:49:30 CET 2009
> > > >>>> root at mobileKamikaze.norad:/usr/obj/HP6510b-8/amd64/usr/src/sys/HP6
> > > >>>> 510 b-8  amd64
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Regards
> > > >>>
> > > >>> May I ask how are you setting them?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Regards
> > > >>> Gonzalo
> > > >>
> > > >> With mixer(8). But now the settings are remembered.
> > > >>
> > > >> I suppose some evil app is to blame. But nothing apart from Skype
> > > >> comes to mind and I configured it not to touch the mixer settings.
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards
> > > >
> > > > Sorry but I have to ask ... have you tried configuring mixer settings
> >
> > as
> >
> > > > described in section 7.2.4 of the FreBSD handbook?
> > > >
> > > > That is to say:
> > > >
> > > > "The default values for the different mixer channels are hardcoded in
> > > > the sourcecode of the pcm(4) driver. There are many different
> > > > applications and daemons that allow you to set values for the mixer
> > > > that are remembered between invocations, but this is not a clean
> > > > solution. ...
> > >
> > > Rather outdated in my opinion. Automatic mixer remembering without
> > > configuring anything has ever worked since I started using FreeBSD
> > > (i.e. 2005).
> >
> > Perhaps you are using reboot/halt instead of shutdown?
> > Reboot and halt will not start the shutdown scripts.
> >
> > --
> > Pieter de Goeje
>
> yup ... I use reboot or halt -p

Well the obvious thing to try then is to use shutdown -r or -p instead... Does 
it work?

- Pieter