It is not the kernel sound works perfectly after bringing up sound volume. I am running 2.6.31-15-generic by the way.
I found some forum posts but these don't make a lot of sense, talking about init.d which runs alsactl. This appears to be related. But it is not about startup and shutdown and I cannot see something related to the lines they are talking about. I su to root and then set the volume and ran `alsactl store` to replace the control file, made no difference. I was thinking that logon might run `alsactl restore` writing a small script that runs on gnome startup to set volume 100% and unmute worked around the problem. Don't know what the source is though. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
