mixer levels on boot

[Norberto Meijome]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:03 -0300
"Harry Doyle" <harry at locals.ca> wrote:

> hello everyone,
> i am running a freebsd server to stream my local campus station's radio
> broadcast to the net. i am using the stock ac97 audio, and using a little
> script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which uses kldload to load the driver.

it'd be better to simply add to /boot/loader.conf.local (or loader.conf , i
prefer to have it clearly defined)
{DRIVER}_load="YES"

eg, for my Intel HDA i have
snd_hda_load="YES"

> 
> i have to issue mixer rec -83 to get the audio down to a decent level (very
> hot coming out of the mixer but i can't change that for other reasons). i
> have tried to script this mixer command into startup by putting a  sleep
> command and then the mixer command, and also by using the /boot/boot.hints
> file.
> 
> however whenever i reboot the machine the mixer command always shows the
> default level of 90 which clips pretty hard.

either
1)  have a script that sets your levels . mine is saved by the OS,, but
sometimes i need to do it by hand, so i use this script:

[betom at ayiin] [Tue Sep 18 10:23:27 2007]
/usr/home/betom
$ cat bin/set_mixer.sh
#!/bin/sh
## Feedback fixed!!! mic == 0
mixer vol 86:86 pcm 86:86 speaker 49:49 mic 0:0 cd 40:40 rec 100:100 =rec mic
--

of course, your device may be different, so adjust accordingly.

2) to save the values, check /etc/rc.d/mixer. mixer_save is called on stop, so
 a) set your levels
 b) add to /etc/rc.conf  
mixer_enable="YES"      # Run the sound mixer.

 c) run /etc/rc.d/mixer stop
 d) reboot  + verify they are set to the right thing. In theory, they should be
saved everytime to reboot..

( i just realised i dont actually have that line in rc.conf...but my levels are
kept across reboots..so all is good... :)

> 
> also, the sound driver doesn't seem to load until around 2 minutes after i
> can log into a fresh boot (not a problem, just some extra info). how can i
> script my default rec level on boot?

use /boot/loader.conf.local

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