It sounds (and is) stupid but a lot of my frustration with muted volumes after reboot was fixed by right-clicking on the volume control icon and un-muting there. For whatever reason, un-muting in gnome-alsa-mixer doesn't persist.
I *suspect* the reason is that pulse requires an obsessive degree of control over ~/.pulse. Most of my attempts to un-mute/kill/restart from the command line ended in a variant of "home dir is not ours". BTW this makes having /home on an NTFS partition "problematic". I hope this sticks - it seems like most of my Ubuntu time for the past 18 months has been spent googling sound fixes. -- [Xubuntu Karmic] Pulseaudio doesn't save volumes when rebooting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449783 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
