Sound problem no speakers

[Tony Pursell]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 01:01 -0700, Patton Echols wrote:
> I have had difficulties getting sound to work correctly on my Netbook.  
> The symptom is that the built in speakers don't work.  When booting, the 
> "drum" sound plays, and that's the end of it.  The headphones do work.
> 
> After much googling, a couple of suggestions were found
> (1) Install linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic
> Done, did not fix the problem
> (2) Edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
> add to file:
> options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-amic
> One site suggested "model=auto" instead.  I've tried that too.
> (3) I'm really close with a suggestion to run "alsamixer" from the 
> command line.  When I do so, I find the "Speaker" slider is set to 
> zero.  I posted a picture of what I'm talking about at: 
> http://s1138.photobucket.com/albums/n539/mpecho/?action=view&current=alsamixer1.png
> If I set volume to 100 (or any non zero value) then sound works 
> correctly.  Speakers on and mute when headphones plugged and unplugged.
> 
> Here is the remaining problem.  This "fix" does not survive a reboot.
> 
> I have looked at the Pulseaudio chooser and volume control.  I see no 
> obvious settings that would account for the behavior.  But then I can't 
> make heads or tails out of most of it anyway.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> System info
> ASUS Eee Pc 1005 PEB
> Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
> $ uname -a
> Linux mycroft 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:46 UTC 
> 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- PE

Try

sudo alsactl store

after you have made the settings in alsamixer.

Tony