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tylar02020

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Registered: 2019-12-20

Posts: 2

soundconf - what does it edit?

Hey guys, I have been making a customised live cd for around a week now. No issues with this part of it. The device I would like to use it on has very strange sound hardware (its a wyse thin client). In order to get sound to work, i need to boot normally and then run soundconf as root. It takes around 20 seconds to find the correct device, and when i press OK, sound works correctly.

I am trying to remove the need to run soundconf every boot - this is where im having issues.

I have noticed it's adding 'snd-via82xx' to rcS.conf, so i have tried manually adding it to the correct line and saving it back to the live cd. This however just boots to cli and typing 'startx' gives a heap of errors and the system locks up. Its worth noting that this is the same thing that happens if I select 'do not remove sound and video config' when making the live cd with tazlito. Also worth noting, I have tried 'dont remove snd + video' while making the live CD FROM the wyse thin client (I assumed this would work since the sound and video drivers were what was detected on boot).

I have googled for the last few days, but wasn't able to find a solution.

Can anybody point me in the right direction on this one please?

Cheers,

Tylar

tylar02020

Member

Registered: 2019-12-20

Posts: 2

Re: soundconf - what does it edit?

As is always the way, I had the issue resolved shortly after posting!

For those wondering, the issue had nothing to do with the drivers. It was simply Alsa! Once I had the audio working by running soundconf, I ran alsactl store. I then backed this file up (/var/lib/alsa/asound.store) to an external USB, and copied it over to the same location on the live cd's rootfs.gz. I simply edited /etc/init.d/local.sh and added 'alsactl restore' to the end of it. I now have sound on boot!!