On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> while the volume was at the proper level. At this point, I am totally >> stumped. The computer I had that died used a SoundBlaster Live Value, and >> although the sound started out muted, restoring the alsa volumes always >> worked as expected. However, on this machine with the Intel onboard sound, >> nothing seems to keep the volumes from muting whenever GNOMe and GDM start. >> ~Kyle > > Did you also do "systemctl enable alsa-store"? "enable" means it > should be set to "start" on boot. > > Immediately after you have booted try "systemctl status alsa-store" - > it should show it as running. If not then try the "enable" command > above. > Actually thinking about it whilst the "systemctl start alsa-store" command should work to start the service if it is not running after boot, you will likely need "systemctl enable alsa-store.service" to start it at boot as the short form only works for starting and stopping the service at present. -- mike c