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    Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    Hello

    I use a Toshiba L300 Laptop and an Acer Aspire Netbook. After recent upgrades to Lucid I have to use the terminal to access alsamixer and turn up the sound on both when I boot-up. I have to do this every-time I boot up as it doesn't remember the change. Any thoughts/suggestions?

    Thanks

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    Re: Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    $sudo alsactl store

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    Re: Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    Thanks.... but now when I run the alsamixer command in terminal it says 'no such file or directory' and the $sudo alsactl store command gets 'save_state:1502: No soundcards found...'

    Any ideas?

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    Re: Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    Click here .. | save_state:1502 |

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    Re: Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    Thanks... well the suggestion in the link you sign posted me to worked; unistalled and re-installed alsa and working fine. But the command to store the settings is giving me this

    PHP Code:
    cozski@cozski-laptop:~$ $sudo alsactl store
    alsactl
    save_state:1530Cannot open /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for writingPermission denied 

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    Re: Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    More options:
    First try these terminal commands:
    Code:
    sudo mv /etc/rc0.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc0.d/S50alsa-utils
    sudo mv /etc/rc6.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc6.d/S50alsa-utils
    Reboot

    No help?
    Open this file for editing:
    Code:
    gksudo gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa
    Scroll down to this line:
    Code:
    load-module module-device-restore
    Comment it out so it looks like this:
    Code:
    #load-module module-device-restore
    Save. Close. Logout/in.

    No help? Comment out line 372 in /etc/init.d/alsa-utils
    Should look like this when you're done:
    Code:
    # mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1

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    Re: Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    Thanks lidex, that resolved it. Just out if interest the other lines below do not have the # symbol... should they? I tend to have ongoing problems with my built-in mic when using skype... could this be related in any way?

    ### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
    #load-module module-device-restore
    load-module module-stream-restore
    load-module module-card-restore

    Thanks again

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    Re: Alsamixer settings not being remembered

    Quote Originally Posted by cozski View Post
    Thanks lidex, that resolved it. Just out if interest the other lines below do not have the # symbol... should they? I tend to have ongoing problems with my built-in mic when using skype... could this be related in any way?

    ### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
    #load-module module-device-restore
    load-module module-stream-restore
    load-module module-card-restore

    Thanks again
    That's all as it should be. As for skype, make sure the option to allow skype to control mixer settings (paraphrasing here) is disabled.
    Please mark the thread solved using 'Thread Tools' up top.

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