Very Computer

Hey all;

I've got a fairly curly query here.  I've managed to get sound working
under X, with AfterStep as my window manager.

Cool :)

The problem is, the sound is very loud. Something, somewhere along the
line, is setting the volume on the sound board to maximum.

It's possible that this is the factory setting, and something's just
sending a reset code.  Dunno either way.

So, here's what I tried to do:

Install aumix, and run it on startup to try and set the volume for the
board after system initialisation.  Cool - it works under X starts,
which seems to reset the sound to max.

So, I put aumix in my ~/.xsession file, to do the same thing.  No
change - AfterStep seems to set the sound high.

Right, no problem - put aumix in my ~/.steprc file, and all is well.  
Yay!  Problem fixed... No, wait.  About a minute later, all sounds get
set to maximum again.

[twitch twitch]

Any ideas what's going on here?  How can I force a volume control for
this thing, and get it to stick?

Relevant information:

Debian linux, running kernel 2.0.33
AfterStep window manager
Sound Blaster 16 audio card, software configurable
The speakers are external, with no volume control, hence the problem

...xmix seems to work better than aumix in terms of "stickability" -
are their command line options for xmix so I can start it and play it
that way?

The ideal solution would be some kind of configuration I've missed :)

Help?  Thanks a lot!

Richard

The kerneld-HOWTO explains how to persuade kerneld to invoke a program
such as aumix to set the volume each time it loads the module.

I use this feature to set the microphone input level to zero, which
cuts out a lot of the noise from my SB16.

Good luck!

   Tony

--
Antony Bowers, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol,
UK. http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~bowers/

There is a Tcl program on the Web called volume.  I think I got it from
sunsite under sound or something.  This will allow you to adjust your
volume level.