Mixer default values not restored

[Rick C. Petty]

"Jouke Witteveen" wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 with the following in my kernel configuration:
> ---
> device          sound
> device          snd_emu10kx
> ---
> My soundcard is a Soundblaster Live!
> 
> In trying to make the rear-channel volume default to "100" I added the
> following to my /boot/device.hints:
> ---
> hint.pcm.1.vol="100"
> hint.pcm.1.pcm="100"
> ---
> This method is suggested on page 164 (section 7.2.4) of the Handbook.
> 
> The problem is that these mixer levels do not apply:
> ---
> $ mixer -f /dev/mixer1
> Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
> Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
> ---

My guess is that the kernel sets those values while booting, but when
coming up multi-user, /etc/rc.d/mixer tries to reset them to the values at
the last shutdown time.  Why don't you just add an rc.d script which fires
after mixer (by using a "# REQUIRE: mixer" line)??

-- Rick C. Petty