Whenever I start KDE-3.3.0, all alsamixer values are reset to 0. This didn't happen with KDE-3.2.3, and doesn't happen if I start X with any other window manager. I don't use Arts (in fact, it's not even installed). I've got a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 512 and I start alsa with '/etc/init.d/alsasound start' at boot time. Drivers are compiled as kernel modules. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest distcc fixpackages sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X X509 aalib alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb doc dv dvb dvd dvdr encode erandom esd extensions faad fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile ieee1394 imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww linguas_it live mad mcal md5sum memlimit mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls nptl odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl pam parse-clocks pdflib perl pic png ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl skey slang slp sndfile snmp socks5 speex spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usbv4l v4l2 vim-with-x wmf wxwindows x86 xchattext xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yaz zlib" $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.1 2002/12/21 06:31:52 agenkin Exp $ # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. options snd cards_limit=1
see bug 59085, and http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69320 Will be fixed in 3.3.1
KMix makes a nice temporary solution. Make sure you check "Restore volumes on login" in Settings -> Configure KMix.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59085 ***
