I'm having some strange problems with my sound. I am using a VIA8233 card and the ALSA from my 2.6.7 kernel. Most of the time I am also using KDE.
If instead of using KDE immediately after boot, I log into one of the text consoles, sound does not work properly. I must turn my speaker up all the way to hear very quiet/crackly sound from ALSA's aplay command. Once, I log in to KDE, the sound works fine. When a different user on the machine logs in via KDE, their sound is bad (like mine is when I use a text console). What could be going wrong here? Are the current settings stored in any file or just in the relevant portions of the running kernel? Where are sound settings stored between boots? I've inspected the working mixer levels with rexima (when I'm logged in via KDE). If after boot at the text prompt, I set things similarly, it still doesn't work. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, -Ivan Here are some relevant versions (I am running Sid with a 2.6.7 kernel that I compiled): -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages alsa-base depends on: ii alsa-utils 1.0.5-3 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii module-init-tools 3.1-pre5-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii modutils 2.4.26-1 Linux module utilities ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy -- debconf information: alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: autosave always -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
