Mixer resets

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 14:24:34 PST 2009


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Rem P Roberti <remegius at comcast.net> wrote:
> I use a ham radio program (fldigi) that needs to have the sound card
> tweaked from time to time.  I started out just doing it from the command
> line via mixer.  After a while I installed gmixer because having a
> graphical interface made things go a lot quicker.  But I discovered that
> every time I invoked gmixer it reset the vol to 0:0.  It continues to do
> that, and I'm wondering if anyone else has that experience with gmixer.
> Could that be a bug?  Are there other graphical mixer alternatives?
>

What does 'mixer' output after a reboot, even with gmixer enabled?
Perhaps as a 'hack', you could do something @reboot via cron to set
mixers start levels.  I know it's not a real fix, but it'll work as a,
so I've heard, "quirkaround" for now.


-- 
Glen Barber


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