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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Re: MX-15 sound loss in VLC

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 13:12:40 +0200
Am Freitag, 5. August 2016 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Friday 05 August 2016 05:18:10 deloptes wrote:
> 
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Thursday 04 August 2016 20:58:50 deloptes wrote:
> > >> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> > and type in the fix it: alsactl restore.
> > >>
> > >> perhaps try alsactl store ? It helps.
> > >
> > > Only if you have called up the alsoctl.gui and made it functional.
> > > No use storing defective settings into your home dir.
> > >
> > >> No issue here with the sound and never had, though this problem was
> > >> visible from time to time during the years on different machines
> > >> after upgrades, migration to new hardware etc etc. Storing the
> > >> settings solves it. This should be called on shutdown/reboot as
> > >> well same as restore on boot by the init script AFAIR.
> > >> I am not sure if TDE saves the state. My impression is it reads the
> > >> state from alsa.
> > >
> > > In which case it is reading a defective file in /root since the
> > > shutdowen and init stuff runs as root, whereas if I run the restore
> > > from a terminal, as me, then it reads a good file from my home dir,
> > > one that I previously saved after calling up the gui as me and
> > > making it work.
> >
> > It is neither in user dir not in root dir. It is saved in
> > /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
> 
> So it is. Owned by root but world rw. Then why, if root can access it 
> during the init phase, is it not active for me until I do an alsactl 
> restore ?  Something in starting the x stuff as the usr after the login, 
> is killing the sound UNTIL the user does a restore.  And its a right 
> PIMA. Just for S & G, I just added an aplay command to be executed by 
> me, immediately after a line in rc.local that does a theoretical 
> restore, as me to play the front-center channel id file.  I'll see if 
> that plays when I next reboot. Which is not eminent ATM.
> 
> > regards
> >
> >
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Hi Gene!

I have none of these issuse, but I have banned systemd from all linuxcnc-boxes.

Nik


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