alsa settings stored

when I try to store my alsa settings, I get the following:

Code:

john@m4400:~$ sudo alsactl store
E: core-util.c: Home directory /home/john not ours.
john@m4400:~$ alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1541: Cannot open /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for writing: Permission denied
john@m4400:~$ 

This is Xubuntu, which I've been away from for a while....what up dog?

 

try....

sudo alsactl store 0

i'm pretty sure you have to specify a sound card with 0 being the default

 

sudo alsactl store works for me on Debian Sid AMD64. Is your home directory owned by someone else?

Code:

sudo chown john /home/john

 

Check this out:

Code:

john@m4400:~$ sudo chown john /home/john
john@m4400:~$ sudo alsactl store
E: core-util.c: Home directory /home/john not ours.
john@m4400:~$

That's the way I was doing it in Slack, i.e. simply sudo alsactl store....let me dig around here...

 

Code:

sudo adduser john audio

Should return that you are already a member of the audio group. If not that might be the problem, and then try running alsactl store as a regular user.

Edit: Also you might want to force reload ALSA maybe it will help:

Code:

sudo alsa force-reload

 

none of the above works....this seems to be on of those quarky ubuntu things....I'm checking the forums.....this is exactly why I like Slackware

 

I put on Ubuntu 9.04 x64 and the command in question works as it should...seems to be an Xubuntu issue.

 

I had that happen to me once... it turned out to be a buggered alsa install. Reinstalling probably fixed it for you.

 

Yeah...I went from Xubuntu to straight Ubuntu...all is working great now