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From: Steve Merrifield
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 00:00

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Kevin Grant (K.Grant@its.gu.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi,

: Well I gave it a go and compiled a kernal on the weekend so I could use 
: my soundcard.  Everything worked perfectly thanks to the HOWTO.

: There is only one small problem.  When Linux boots up the souncard volume 
: is set to maximum. I've read the faq's and howto's but I haven't been 
: able to discover how to set a default volume on boot up.  Can anyone 
: help?

I use the *setmixer* program to adjust the volume at startup. You can get
it from the usual sunsite mirrors. My rc.local file inclues the following:

echo "Setting volume on soundcard..."
/usr/local/bin/setmixer vol 50

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From: sjm@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Steve Merrifield)
Subject: Re: Sound volume?
Date: 1996/05/07
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