Re: [alsa-devel] Softvol only after device has opened

On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Clemens Ladisch wrote:

Ricard Wanderlof wrote:

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Can "alsactl restore" be run before the device is opened then?

Many distributions run "alsactl restore" in some startup script. You can execute it yourself whenever you want.

What I was getting at was that although I can't do:

$ amixer sset Capture 192

if Capture is defined by the softvol plugin, and I haven't opened the device prior to running amixer, however

$ alsactl restore 0:

works, assuming that I've saved the settings previously, even before the device is opened. I can understand that this is very useful and desired, but given that the underlying control does not yet exist, it puzzles me that it actually works.

/Ricard