Re: mixer settings on 8.0-RC2

From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze_at_bsdforen.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:57:08 +0100
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Rather outdated in my opinion.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).
Received on Tue Nov 03 2009 - 14:57:10 UTC

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