Alsamixer won't retain settings

[jimfl]

I get no sound on bootup and have to run alsamixer to tell it to use my sound card instead of the default. Then I have to force alsa to reload. Because alsamixer doesn't retain the setting, I have to do this every time I bootup.

I've tried this with no success:
sudo alsactl store (had to run it as root, though)

Any help appreciated.

[CatKiller]

I think trying to forcefully save your volume settings as a way to set your default sound device is probably doing it wrong.

ALSA has a configuration file for that kind of thing. asound.conf? Something like that. I haven't really played with ALSA much.

[slickymaster]

Take a look at this bug, Sound muted after boot, in particular see posts #3 and #77

[LewisTM]

Find you desired sound settings in alsamixer then store them

sudo alsactl store

Apply the settings, typically in a user autostart entry

alsactrl restore

Cheers!

[jimfl]

LewisTM,

I used
sudo alsactl store and got Permission Denied error.

Tried gksudo alsactl store and that seemed to work.

However, I don't know how to do a "user autostart entry."