Re: mixer settings on 8.0-RC2

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Pieter de Goeje <pieter_at_degoeje.nl> wrote:

> 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 Rather outdated in my opinion.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
>

yup ... I use reboot or halt -p