I only had to do this when I first installed alsa. I built a new kernel
and alsa last night actually. I didn't fiddle with the mixer settings at
all. That's just my experience though.

Arun (aka sindian)

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:55, John P.Davis wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:00:00 +0100
> From: Johan Hattne <hattne@ibg.uu.se>
> To: zhen@gentoo.org
> Subject: The Gentoo ALSA Guide
> 
> 
> 
> It's really great! I had ALSA up and running in no-time thanks to your
> documentation. I've had a lot more trouble with ALSA on other
> distributions.
> 
> However, I think it would be appropriate to note that you have to unmute
> the channels after remerging the drivers when installing a fresh kernel
> (at the very end of the document). I realize it may be very obvious but it
> took my a long time to figure that out...
> 
> // Cheers; Johan Hattne
> 
> 
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> 
> Is this valid?
> I have not had to do this in the past..
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen