Mixer default values not restored

Jouke Witteveen j.witteveen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 05:32:50 PST 2008


On Jan 7, 2008 7:30 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 02 January 2008 08:35:40 am Jouke Witteveen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 with the following in my kernel configuration:
> > ---
> > device          sound
> > device          snd_emu10kx
> > ---
> > My soundcard is a Soundblaster Live!
> >
> > In trying to make the rear-channel volume default to "100" I added the
> > following to my /boot/device.hints:
> > ---
> > hint.pcm.1.vol="100"
> > hint.pcm.1.pcm="100"
> > ---
> > This method is suggested on page 164 (section 7.2.4) of the Handbook.
> >
> > The problem is that these mixer levels do not apply:
> > ---
> > $ mixer -f /dev/mixer1
> > Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
> > Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
> > ---
> > There is no problem however in manualy settig these values.
> >
> > Any help is welcome. My machine can - may it be needed - be used as a testbase.
>
> Hmm, probably /etc/rc.d/mixer is overriding the tunables as it is restoring the settings
> to those from the previous boot.  You can disable the mixer script perhaps.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>

Like I said; initialy I had the script disabled.
Can someone please test de kernel tunables (hints) on his/her machine?

Thanks,
- Jouke


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