Saving ALSA settings?
#1
I'm running the Manjaro which shipped with my ANSI Pinebook Pro. Sound works fine BUT every time I reboot I must open a terminal, run alsamixer (which, I confess, I don't understand very well), hit F6, choose rockchip, es8316-codec, and increase the first "Headphone" meter (there are two! Why?) from 0 to (usually) 100 -- since it seems to increment only from 0->28->56->100. This setting usually serves me fine until shutdown. So I have two questions
  1. Is there any way to save this "Headphone" setting so I don't have to reset it each time? Alternatively, is there any config file I could edit with Vim to edit this setting (provided I can identify the proper setting name)?
  2. Is anyone aware of ALSA documentation readable by mere mortals where I can read up about how it works so I can figure out questions like this myself, in the future?
Thanks. My apologies if this issue is covered elsewhere in the forum. I searched but didn't find anything obviously relevant.
#2
I experience the same issue and I have tried multiple things to solve it to no avail... I'll keep an eye on this thread Wink
#3
Here you can find several solutions

https://askubuntu.com/questions/50067/ho...r-settings
#4
I'm having the same problem. I created a alsa config file-after adding the headphone option- and a script to load the config. My issue now is trying to get the script to run on startup... I've tried adding it as a service and adding to the the start up menu. Nothing.

the alsa config was generated using

sudo alsactl --file /home/frofro/Desktop/foostore store

and the script to load it

#!/bin/bash

alsactl --file /home/frofro/Desktop/foostore restore

if I run my bash script from the command line, the audio fix work. I just can't get it to run on startup. I'll update if I get it working
#5
(08-28-2020, 09:11 PM)--frofro Wrote: I'm having the same problem. I created a alsa config file-after adding the headphone option- and a script to load the config. My issue now is trying to get the script to run on startup... I've tried adding it as a service and adding to the the start up menu. Nothing.

the alsa config was generated using

sudo alsactl --file /home/frofro/Desktop/foostore store

and the script to load it

#!/bin/bash

alsactl --file /home/frofro/Desktop/foostore restore

if I run my bash script from the command line, the audio fix work. I just can't get it to run on startup. I'll update if I get it working
I'd gotten as far as using``sudo alsactl store`` (with ``alsamixer`` still open, after I'd made the change I needed) to save the settings to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state BUT... while changes were stored to that file they were not automatically picked up by alsa the next time I rebooted. I had to run ``sudo alsactl restore`` to actually get the changes to register with alsa again. This didn't seem to be much better than simply opening alsamixer and making the changes manually (perhaps with a startup script: ``konsole -e alsamixer``).

Maintaining a separate config file seems like a better solution, if it is possible to get it to work automatically, but it feels like there's something we're still missing.
#6
see the postinstall script in pbp-tools and use nrestore instead.
#7
I think the issue is getting the script to run on start-up. I tried nrestore with the alsa config file and it exhibits the same results as restore. Is there something we are missing?
#8
dunno, i've never had this issue. on debian with the pbp-tools kernel you need alsa-utils, alsa-tools, and pulseaudio packages, then place the alsa state and run nrestore.

see the script for ideas?
https://github.com/xmixahlx/pbp-tools/bl...ostinstall
#9
I may try Debian and see if the issue persists...

Thank for the help.
#10
As a workaround you can place the restore line in /etc/profile


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