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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 09:12 +0000
Organization	My Linux Box
Message-ID	<mrp8ml$sq4$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 02:22:22 +0000, JohnF wrote:
> > Somewhat off topic, but yeah, that can be very helpful. I've added a
> > line to /etc/syslog.conf
> >    *.*    -/var/log/allmessages
> > just to accumulate all messages in one place for easy reference or grep.

> Dmesg can be very helpful for many things, but those boot messages coming 
> from echo lines in rc.d scripts are only seen during boot.

> fgrep echo /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa 
> gives:
> -8<-----------------
>     echo "Loading ALSA mixer settings:  /usr/sbin/alsactl restore"
>       echo "Setting default ALSA mixer settings."
>       echo "Storing default ALSA mixer settings:  /usr/sbin/alsactl store"
>     echo "Loading OSS compatibility modules for ALSA."
>     echo "Loading ALSA kernel modules."
> -8<-----------------

> None of those messages will be seen by dmesg or in any log file.

Very true.  If you want to see those in the logs after the fact, you'd
need to change your rc files to call 'logger' instead of echo.  Of
course, you need to make sure that syslogd is up before you start
calling 'logger' with those messages.

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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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