On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 19:15 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I am using netenv in such cases. You can define a per hostname > dependend /var/lib/alsa. This is the place where the soundcontrols > are stored. As well you can define a asoundrc (etc or $home) per > hostname for the diffrent sound devices and you're done.
Per-hostname is insufficient since it is the same Debian install on one hard drive, but I am booting it on different hardware. > > Store the mixer settings in a per-system or per-audio-device file. > > > > Have a cron job delete mixer settings for cards that haven't been used > > in 6 months or so. > > Isn't that to complicated? It would meet my needs and the needs of other roaming Debian users. I think it would be exactly enough flexibility to support all users. > Nice idea, but you know unixes are providing many solutions and are > always a challenge. If one uses a stick or hd for more than one > machine we can expect that user can handle those comfortable ideas > with provided tools by himself, isn't it? It would be almost trivial to support this within alsa-utils and there are zero to minimal downsides for non-roaming users so I don't see why it couldn't be implemented within alsa-utils (apart from lack of time). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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