I am using Slackwarearm-14.1 on a model B Pi. I am curious how I can make the sound card setting permanent after a reboot.

Each time I restart the Pi, I need to

modprobe snd_bcm2835

to get the sound back online, and then alsamixer & alsactl store to save to volumes.

Is there a way to make the modprobe snd_bcm2835 permanent?

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Mr. B-o-B

there probably is a cleaner way but maybe you can put those commands in /etc/rc.local.

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Agreed. I put everything I need into the rc.local. Works great.


Thank You!

You just need to create a *.conf file under /etc/modules-load.d/ with the name of the module you want loaded.
For example
See man modules-load.d(5) for more details.

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Perfect. I'll give that a try.

Thank You!

No problem, please do share if it works for you.

According to the modprobe.d man page that's not the correct syntax ... I favor doing that sort of thing by adding the modules I need directly in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (which may be a link to a similar file with the kernel version in the name) ... so I can't tell you off hand if it will work anyway.
If you want to go the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules way just do this:
As for the volume levels to get some sound out of the device after boot I do that by dumping the state of the working device and using that to generate a command to pass to amixer via rc.local. I don't have the laptop that needs that to show an example ... but if you need that I can show you once I get back home.