Sound, WTF?

[Robert Meyer]

--- vlok stone <vlokstone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey guys, I got this strange little problem, everytime
> 
> I reboot my box. For some reason, ( I suspect that it
> has 
> something to do w/ Mandrake's use of devfsd ), when
> I'm back up my /dev/dsp sym link has been changed to a
> directory. I delete it and recreate the sym link to
> /dev/sound/dsp and chmod it and all's well. But, why
> why why? Also, when I reboot it automatically resets
> the alsamixer to mute. Not a huge problem, since I
> only need to reboot once a month do something in
> windows. It just
> drives me nuts, because I don't have the answer. Any 
> ideas? 

Well, did you add alsa after you installed Mandrake and what version are
you running?  Alsa is supposed to save the mixer settings when it shuts
down so I suspect that it is not shutting down properly.  You should see
something like this:

alsa: saving mixer settings

in the messages as it's shutting down.

As for the /dev/dsp thing, I don't know what's going on there.  I used to
use ALSA but I got rid of the stupid sound card that was only supported
in ALSA so I don't have the modules installing here that used to go there and
therefore don't have the device links that ALSA used to set up.

Cheers!

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