Sound problem no speakers

[Pastor JW]

On Monday, March 21, 2011 5:06:58 pm Patton Echols wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Seemed like such a good idea.  Apparently 
> something is overriding the saved info because the changes still do not 
> survive reboot.  I also discovered in the process "amixer" a CLI utility 
> that will allow you to make and show sound settings.
> 
> Output with sound working
> ===========================
> $ amixer sget Speaker
> Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
>    Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
>    Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>    Limits: Playback 0 - 64
>    Mono:
>    Front Left: Playback 63 [98%] [0.00dB] [on]
>    Front Right: Playback 63 [98%] [0.00dB] [on]
> ========Store Settings ==========
> $ sudo alsactl store
> 
> =======After Reboot==========
> $ amixer sget Speaker
> Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
>    Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
>    Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>    Limits: Playback 0 - 64
>    Mono:
>    Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-63.00dB] [on]
>    Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-63.00dB] [on]
> 
> Anyone other ideas?  I am most interested in suggestions as to what 
> could be doing the resetting.  My guess is that something is 
> mis-configured But I've no idea what.

Do you have "pavucontrol" installed?  Seems this needs installed for any pulse 
audio to work but is never installed by default.  

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