aumix forgets settings -- MDK9.1 -- is there a fix?

[Satur9]

Hi all,

I've searched long and hard for an answer -- through this board, through Google Linux and through various other forums -- and yet still there is no definative answer.

How do you get aumix to remember your settings in Mandrake 9.1??

I know that MDK9.1 sets your sound setting to "mute" by default, and that's no big deal. The problem is that no matter what I do to change the settings, when I reboot the computer the sound settings are back to muted. This means I have to open aumix every time I reboot and readjust the sound.

I've tried launching aumix as a regular user, as su through konsole, and by logging into KDE as root. I've saved the .aumixrx file to /etc/, and I've saved it in my home directory. I've used alsamixer and kmix instead of aumix. None of them remember the settings.

What's the fix? Does anybody know?

thanks,
Tim

[deathadder]

ive never had that problem before but when i do a fresh install of debian i always chmod 666 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer

maybe a chmod 666 /dev/mixer will help

just a guess though

[Satur9]

Perhaps its portends a greater issue that when I chmod 666 /dev/mixer and reboot the permissions are set back to their defaults. In other words, none of the permission changes I make to /dev/mixer last beyond a reboot. This could possibly be happening on a greater level -- there could be other config files that I'm changing that aren't "remembering" those changes.

For now, the work around I have to the aumix problem is crude but effective. I turned up the volume in aumix and then did a "Save To" and saved the settings as .aumixrc in my /home/user directory. Then I created a aumix.sh file in kedit and added the line "aumix -L /home/tim/.aumixrc" and saved the script to the /home/user/.kde/Autostart directory. This way, everytime I start KDE, it loads the script which loads my saved settings to aumix. It fixes the mute problem, but it's a little aggrevating since the /dev/mixer should be doing that already.

Oh well, it works for now.