Am Montag, 2. Juli 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Sunday 01 July 2018 22:14:45 Mike Bird wrote:
> 
> > On Sun July 1 2018 18:48:27 William Morder wrote:
> > > Then I will send you a screenshot of my own run levels, or somebody
> > > else can do so; or you can do some research on how to set the run
> > > levels in sysv-rc-conf.
> >
> > I'm sorry if I seem to be dogging you today Bill but I do not
> > recommend messing with sysv-rc-conf.  Debian and its major derivatives
> > automatically enable everything that is installed and so there is no
> > need to enable and disable services in runlevels as there is in other
> > distros.
> >
> > Nor does the runlevel change when TDE is started, and the OP said that
> > sound was working until he starts TDE.
> 
> Yes, I can hear system noises before I login. Login and they become muted 
> and firefox is silent, until I stop whatever FF is playing and issue the 
> alsoctl restore command, which reports a can't do that, system is busy, 
> but when I restart FF playing whatever, it then works till the next 
> reboot.
> 
> > IIRC OP did not say which 
> > sound system was working before TDE and which sound system he is using
> > in TDE.
> 
> Alsa seems to be the tool of choice. I have had some of Leonart P's stuff 
> installed but could not make it work w/o a lot of fiddling, so I took it 
> back out, sometimes with rm. Apt-get seems not to be very good at 
> cleaning up the messes it has installed.
> 
> Maybe I can't see the forest because of all the trees, but I can't see 
> any logical reason why starting tde should mute the sound system, 
> perhaps someone could clarify why that is so, requiring an intervention 
> by alsactl before it works again.
> 
> > The most likely explanation for his problem is that they are different
> > and that there is a problem with the sound system he is using in TDE.
> >
> > Alternatively, if the before TDE sound system and during TDE sound
> > systems are the same, the most likely explanation is a problem with
> > the TDE configuration of that sound system.
> >
> > In practice there is not much difference between these two cases.  The
> > place to look is the configuration of his current TDE sound system.
> 
> I just did, and turned off the remote access and the timeout, we'll see 
> at the next reboot. Usually at about 30 day intervals. 14 days uptime 
> right now.
> > --Mike

What about adding that alsactrl-comman into .xinitrc or .xsessionrc? e.g.:

( sleep 1m; alsactrl .....) &

nik



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