From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 3 18:57:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA70106568F for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:57:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (mx1.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1932B8FC12 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nox.student.utwente.nl (nox.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.91]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id nA3Iojgn021062; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:50:46 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: Gonzalo Nemmi Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:50:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4AEEDCFB.3060604@bsdforen.de> <200911031746.31571.pieter@degoeje.nl> <19e9a5dc0911030934r601a4f23w20b9f23b51752327@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <19e9a5dc0911030934r601a4f23w20b9f23b51752327@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911031950.45797.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact icts.servicedesk@utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mixer settings on 8.0-RC2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:57:51 -0000 On Tuesday 03 November 2009 18:34:14 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Pieter de Goeje 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@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 Well the obvious thing to try then is to use shutdown -r or -p instead... Does it work? - Pieter