Alsa Question

[mharrison]

So, I have been searching around on a warning message I saw when booting up the other day and I think I have the answer, but I would like to confirm what my thoughts are on it.

I saw this message the other day while booting back up after having to shut off power to repair some electrical wires at my house:

Save ALSA mixer settings detected; aumix will not touch mixer. ...(warning).

In my searching, it seems that the mixer settings are being restored by alsa and that when aumix loads, it detected that and just backed off and didn't change anything.

Am I right in that interpretation?

[notthatguy]

definitely maybe

[mojoman]

I've had that warning for ages. I tried to get my head around it a year ago or so but only came up with what you did.

Sound has always worked so I'm not messing with it.

[nadir]

Now and then i get that error message. I solve it by "apt-get remove --purge aumix"
To test if i recall correct i did "apt-get install aumix", rebooted, and voila

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ROOT# grep aumix /var/log/boot
Tue Oct 11 20:48:49 2011: Saved ALSA mixer settings detected; aumix will not touch mixer. ... ^[[33m(warning).^[[39;49

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[mojoman]

Well, yes, that's a solution I guess. Unless, of course, you actually use aumix for something.

It's actually a neat little sound mixer. I've used it before to control sound with the media keys on my keyboards in various WM's. Very handy.

[jheaton5]

aumix is broken in sid.

[nadir]

What i meant is:
in my eyes it looks as if the error message is in fact just an info.
As i don't need aumix i remove it. If one needs or wants it one can't remove it (one can, but its not what i would call a solution). In that case i would ignore the message (assuming everything works as it should).

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broken in sid? seems to work here. Strange.

[notthatguy]

You could always edit /etc/init.d/aumix and change the message to something else like "cant touch this" or something.

[mharrison]

So basically what I have gathered from the answers posted to my question is that I should remove aumix if I don't use it, or simply live with it....Also had one to change it to the powerful words of one MC Hammer.

I'm just glad I was able to confirm my own findings.

[huggybear]

You could always edit /etc/init.d/aumix and change the message to something else like "cant touch this" or something.

In Debian??? LAWSUIT!