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SyXbiT

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 177

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volume is always muted on next boot

first let me say I've read other forum posts about the same thing, but none have helped.
All I have to do to get sound it move (up or down) my keyboard shortcut volume switch, and it magically turns on my sound. pretty annoying
I have alsa in my Daemons, and have run 'alsactl store' as root.
i even tried putting 'alsactl restore' in my rc.local, but nothing

groups:
tty lp mem wheel locate games dbus hal avahi network video audio optical storage power users gdm

any ideas?

ombra85

Member

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 8

Re: volume is always muted on next boot

first let me say I've read other forum posts about the same thing, but none have helped.
All I have to do to get sound it move (up or down) my keyboard shortcut volume switch, and it magically turns on my sound. pretty annoying
I have alsa in my Daemons, and have run 'alsactl store' as root.
i even tried putting 'alsactl restore' in my rc.local, but nothing

groups:
tty lp mem wheel locate games dbus hal avahi network video audio optical storage power users gdm

any ideas?

Put into file /etc/rc.local.shutdown this line:

alsactl store

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: volume is always muted on next boot

Set the the desired audio volumes with alsamixer, run alsactl store, and start the alsa daemon and make sure it starts at every bootup.

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mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: volume is always muted on next boot

Set the the desired audio volumes with alsamixer, run alsactl store, and start the alsa daemon and make sure it starts at every bootup.

first let me say I've read other forum posts about the same thing, but none have helped.
All I have to do to get sound it move (up or down) my keyboard shortcut volume switch, and it magically turns on my sound. pretty annoying
I have alsa in my Daemons, and have run 'alsactl store' as root.
i even tried putting 'alsactl restore' in my rc.local, but nothing

groups:
tty lp mem wheel locate games dbus hal avahi network video audio optical storage power users gdm

any ideas?

he said he did that, it's something else...

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: volume is always muted on next boot

adding kmix to the autostart fixed my problem with the muted sound on startup

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: volume is always muted on next boot

As a last resort, you can add this to rc.local, or wherever else you find appropriate:

mixers="Master PCM CD"
for mixer in $mixers ; do
  /usr/bin/amixer -q sset $mixer mute
    /usr/bin/amixer -q sset $mixer unmute
    done

It just mutes and unmutes sound, and also works well for laptops with quirky sound hardware , on resume.

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