Sound muted after each reboot, how to keep it unmuted?

[sahra]

I've been having a lot of sound problems on my Acer Aspire 5052AWXMi. Sound now works, but I have to unmute it after every reboot by going into alsamixer to turn on surround sound in order for my speakers to work. Therefore I have no start-up noise, etc.

Could someone please help me to figure out how I can fix this so that 'surround' is not set to mute every time I turn my computer on? Thanks.

[BrendanM]

I've seen this before. I'm not sure why it happens. I had good luck by on the login screen, going to Options, then clicking "Select Session" and choosing GNOME instead of "Last Session" and then when it asked me, I made that the default.

Don't ask me why that made any difference.

[sahra]

Thanks for your suggestion, but unfortunately there's no change.

I suspect this isn't the case, since I seem to have tried in all ways possible, but is there a specific order I need to do that in, eg resetting the surround settings in alsamixer and then changing my session or vice versa?

[rsambuca]

After unmuting your sound in a session, try entering this command in a terminal. I have no idea if this will work in ubuntu, but it worked for my gentoo installation.

sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound save

[thecure]

Originally Posted by rsambuca After unmuting your sound in a session, try entering this command in a terminal. I have no idea if this will work in ubuntu, but it worked for my gentoo installation. sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound save

I'm having the same problem after latest update to Hardy. I'll try your tip after I get home. Thank you.