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Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade.

From	Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject	Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade.
Date	2015-08-28 01:58 +0000
Organization	My Linux Box
Message-ID	<mrof7p$mc1$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Rinaldi J. Montessi <rinaldi@notaserver.com> wrote:
> Eef Hartman decreed, Read These Runes!:
> > Rinaldi J. Montessi <rinaldi@notaserver.com> wrote:
> >>> /etc/asound.state is used to save volatile settings over boot. It's
> >>> written by 'alsactl store' during shutdown. 
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> 
> >> Didn't know that.  I thought alsactl only ran on demand.  Thanks!
> > 
> > IF you made rc.alsa executable, of course:
> >> if [ -r /etc/asound.state ]; then
> >>   echo "Loading ALSA mixer settings:  /usr/sbin/alsactl restore"
> >>   /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
> > at boot-up, cq.
> >>   echo "Storing default ALSA mixer settings:  /usr/sbin/alsactl store"
> >>   /usr/sbin/alsactl store
> > when that file is NOT there yet.
> > 
> > Note: nothing is done at shutdown!

> Thanks for the clarification.  I have rc.alsa executable but bootup is
> so quick I only get to see a fraction of the messages and dmesg isn't
> helpful.

Look in /var/log/.  The kernel boot messages get logged into files in
/var/log/ when syslog starts up.  That's why dmesg isn't helpful,
syslog has already emptied the kernel ring buffer to a disk file by the
time you can get to a shell to type dmesg.

Thread

Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-08-24 09:44 -0500
  Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Mr. Mxyztplk" <user@foobar.com.invalid> - 2015-08-26 23:33 +0000
    Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-08-26 22:23 -0500
      Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-08-27 15:55 -0500
  Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Mr.  Mxyztplk" <user@foobar.com.invalid> - 2015-08-26 18:51 -0500
    Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-08-26 22:24 -0500
      Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Mr. Mxyztplk" <user@foobar.com.invalid> - 2015-08-27 14:24 +0000
        Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-08-27 20:18 +0000
          Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-08-27 15:56 -0500
            Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 23:12 +0000
              Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-08-27 20:20 -0500
                Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-08-28 01:58 +0000
                Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-08-28 02:22 +0000
                Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:41 +0000
                Re: Lost HDMI sound with recent current upgrade. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-08-28 09:12 +0000

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