Re: mixer settings on 8.0-RC2

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 Rather outdated in my opinion.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