Volume Muted on Startup

[icanfly0307]

Hi, Everytime I turn on my computer, every single audio channel is muted and I have to manually unmute it. This is really annoying as I primarily use this computer for browsing the internet and listening to music. Does anyone know what's going on and how I can fix it? Thanks for your suggestions...

[ynnhoj]

after you unmute that channels and have everything set as you'd like, you can use the alsactl (http://alsa.opensrc.org/Alsactl) command to preserve those settings. in a terminal..alsactl store..(might need a sudo before that command too)

and if you don't have the command, install the alsa-tools package.

[MaindotC]

Try the suggestion I posted on your other thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1041799

[icanfly0307]

@ynnhoj: Thanks I'll try it once I get home.

@strAlan: I don't want to disable the startup sounds. I just need my volume settings preserved the way they are when I unmute them.

Thanks for your help. :)

[MaindotC]

The post I suggested is how to DISABLE them - you need to try the REVERSE of those directions.

[ynnhoj]

@strAlan: I don't want to disable the startup sounds. I just need my volume settings preserved the way they are when I unmute them.
yea, he's suggesting that you might have the sounds muted and as a result, your sound stays muted. (seems to me that if that's what's happening, that would be a bug/glitch with Gnome/GDM though, wouldn't it..? there's a big difference between 'mute startup sounds' and 'mute sounds altogether'! :D)

[MaindotC]

ynnhoj that's true but I'm just trying to follow a troubleshooting flow of eliminating that possibility. I just want to make sure this isn't a simple thing like sound being muted instead of turning into this big complex issue of a driver putting the wrong value into a register or having to recompile the kernel with a different option or something along those lines. If in fact it is a bug, then he should file a bug report.