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What is asound.state ?
by Jonathan E. Brickman-2
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I happened to notice one web site which said to delete /etc/asound.state
when changing configurations. I don't have an /etc/asound.state, but I do have a /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. Should I delete it? It appears to be ASCII with very long lines, human-readable but machine-intended I think. J.E.B. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by Julien Claassen
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Hi Jonathan!
the asound.state, whereever it is, it has different locations, don't know if based on alsa-version or distro. It is the place where ALSA (alsactl) stores all the volumes and settings for your cards. For cards with more features this can mean routing etc. I seem to remember, that it can be helpful to delete them. NOTE BENE: If you like your soundcard settings as they are and if there's a lot to setup, you can try to save the settings for that card in one file. I don't know how to do it, but it's simple. I once did it. With that, you can tell alsactl to resotre the settings for that particular card, whereever ALSA finds it now, from that file. Kind regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by garry Ogle
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Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hi Jonathan! > the asound.state, whereever it is, it has different locations, don't know if > based on alsa-version or distro. It is the place where ALSA (alsactl) stores > all the volumes and settings for your cards. For cards with more features this > can mean routing etc. I seem to remember, that it can be helpful to delete > them. > NOTE BENE: If you like your soundcard settings as they are and if there's a > lot to setup, you can try to save the settings for that card in one file. I > don't know how to do it, but it's simple. I once did it. With that, you can > tell alsactl to resotre the settings for that particular card, whereever ALSA > finds it now, from that file. > Kind regards > Julien from the man page ( man alsactl ): NAME alsactl - advanced controls for ALSA soundcard driver SYNOPSIS alsactl [options] [store|restore|init] <card # or id or device> DESCRIPTION alsactl is used to control advanced settings for the ALSA soundcard drivers. It supports multiple soundcards. If your card has features that you can't seem to control from a mixer application, you have come to the right place. COMMANDS store saves the current driver state for the selected soundcard to the configuration file. restore loads driver state for the selected soundcard from the configuration file. If restoring fails (eventually partly), the init action is called. <edit> FILES /var/lib/alsa/asound.state (or whatever file you specify with the -f flag) is used to store current settings for your soundcards. The settings include all the usual soundcard mixer settings. More importantly, alsactl is capable of controlling other card-specific features that mixer apps usually don't know about. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by Fons Adriaensen-2
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21:46PM +0000, Garry Ogle wrote:
> ... > > FILES > /var/lib/alsa/asound.state (or whatever file you specify with > the -f flag) is used to store current settings for your soundcards. What system is this ? On both Fedora and ArchLinux the default is '/etc/asound.state'. -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by Jonathan E. Brickman-2
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I believe that /var/lib/alsa is the default location in Debian. J.E.B. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by James Cameron
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:39:18PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> > What system is this ? On both Fedora and ArchLinux the default > is '/etc/asound.state'. > > I believe that /var/lib/alsa is the default location in Debian. And this is good, because it allows /etc/ to remain read-only ... everything that needs to be written by programs ends up in /var. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by garry Ogle
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fons@... wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21:46PM +0000, Garry Ogle wrote: > >> ... >> >> FILES >> /var/lib/alsa/asound.state (or whatever file you specify with >> the -f flag) is used to store current settings for your soundcards. > > What system is this ? On both Fedora and ArchLinux the default > is '/etc/asound.state'. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by Bjoern Lindig
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On Tuesday 27 October 2009 05:44:09 James Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:39:18PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > > What system is this ? On both Fedora and ArchLinux the default > > is '/etc/asound.state'. > > > > I believe that /var/lib/alsa is the default location in Debian. > > And this is good, because it allows /etc/ to remain read-only ... > everything that needs to be written by programs ends up in /var. > So, you say, it would make sense to change it? Is there a way to change the default on ArchLinux? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: What is asound.state ?
by Ray Rashif
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2009/10/28 Bjoern Lindig <bjoern.lindig@...>
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 05:44:09 James Cameron wrote: Huh? It's upstream decision, man alsactl: -f, --file Select the configuration file to use. The default is /etc/asound.state.
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