Preffered Mixer Settings

[mimosa]

I see there is an option under System that allows you to choose the card, and save the settings; I can't find the front end for amixer shown in these screenshots on the menu, either under System or under Settings. What might be more intuitive for users, and I imagine not hard to do, would be if you could adjust the settings and save them all in one place, the latter as a button or a tick box next to the volume settings. Perhaps this reflects the fact that alsamixer and alsactl are separate programs - something it took me quite a long time to discover. No problem after that, of course, but now I come to think of it, it was quite frustrating at the time, and somehow not what one would expect. Surely a front end should integrate these utilities, bringing them together under one roof?

In case anyone is interested, this information about them was helpful to me at the time, though I still haven't a clue what some of these actually do:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Alsa-utils

[zAchAry]

If you are using alsa (which is default in Salix), you could do this command after adjusting your volume levels to the wished values. You need root rights to can do that.

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/usr/sbin/alsactl store

Why aren't the default settings of the mixer being saved after rebooting the system?

[thenktor]

Set you volume to a nice level, run alsactl store and never think about adjusting your levels after a reboot anymore