Sound Issues in Fresh Hoary Install

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:10:44PM -0600, Kent Frazier wrote:

> I recently reinstalled Hoary fresh from Array 2 after my previous
> install gave up the ghost (died).  Everything went pretty well, and
> all seemed to be working fine, except a few problems with the sound. 
> When I first booted in, there was no sound.  After messing around with
> alsamixer and the gnome mixer applet, I realized that everything was
> muted and the volume levels were at the minimum.

This was a bug which is now fixed in current Hoary.

> OK, I thought, easy enough to fix.  After unmuting and increasing the
> volume for master and PCM, the event sounds all worked fine.  After every
> reboot, however, they are again muted and lowered to nothing.  How can I
> get it to stop resetting the sound levels?

This, I've never seen before.  The way it is supposed to work is that every
time you shut down, the mixer levels are saved, and restored on the next
boot.  It sounds like you may have saved mixer levels which are muted, but
even if you did, it should revert on the next shutdown after you unmute
them.

Make sure you're using the ALSA mixer, and not the OSS mixer.

-- 
 - mdz