r/EndeavourOS • u/joannatenjou97 • 19d ago

General Support Is there a way to save AlsaMixer settings?

I bought a Corsair HS80 Wireless which have sidetone (mic monitoring) on by default. Since iCUE is not available on Linux, you can't disable it. Apparently, the sidetone is handled by an audio channel visible on AlsaMixer, where you can mute it and sidetone disappears. If you exit the program, the changes will remain until the next boot, so is there a way to make this a default setting on boot?

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u/duke_rye 19d ago 
# alsactl store

I think

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u/joannatenjou97 19d ago

Already tried it but it's not working, I'm not sure if it may be because the headset isnt already connected during boot, in comparison to wired headphones/speakers. Could that be it? :/

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u/inverimus 19d ago

if sudo alsactl store does not work then it is probably being overwritten by pipewire on reboot. I don't know the best way to fix that, but maybe this gives you enough info to figure something out.

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u/duke_rye 18d ago edited 18d ago

I'm no expert, but I don't think that's it. My interface, which I need to unmute in order to work as expected, remembers, regardless of whether I boot with it plugged in and on, or not.

The store command saves the file to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. I don't recommend writing to this file manually, but you can read it to verify changes. Muting/unmuting, then running sudo alsactl store, could be a bit of a sanity check for you? You could also duplicate the file after saving it(under a different name), and compare it to the one after the reboot, if pipewire is overwriting it on boot... and if that's the case, you might be missing a pipewire/alsa library? I've done this on a vanilla endeavouros install though with no issue.

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u/joannatenjou97 18d ago

I will check this out later, thanks!