alsa settings not restored on startup

[Martin Vysny]

Binary package hint: alsa-utils

Upon upgrading to Maverick I noticed that the 6-channel setting on alsa is not restored properly (always fixed to 2-channels). I tried running "sudo /lib/udev/alsa-utils" as suggested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/352732/comments/9 and it failed:

$ sudo /lib/udev/alsa-utils
alsactl: Unknown command 'start'...

The /lib/udev/alsa-utils file:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# udev script for alsa-utils

(
 DEV_BASENAME="${DEVNAME##*/}"
 N="${DEV_BASENAME#controlC}"
 exec /sbin/alsactl start $N
) &

perhaps it needs to be changed to "restore" command?

[Martin Vysny (vyzivus)]

Changing the line to "exec /sbin/alsactl restore $N" fixed the bug, it restored alsa settings upon boot.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

It actually should be calling the initscript, oops. Fixed in bzr.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package alsa-utils - 1.0.23-2ubuntu3

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alsa-utils (1.0.23-2ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/udev.script: Use 'alsa-utils', not 'alsactl' directly
    (LP: #645869)
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:10:30 -0400