> On this workstation here at work I never log out from Monday morning to > Friday evening, sometimes longer, but still every morning when I come in I > have to run alsamixer to unmute and bring up the volume on my sound card. > What can I do to keep alsa from "timing out" like this? This is an > intel8x0 chipset that otherwise works fine. sounds like your alsa drivers are getting autocleaned maybe oh rats too early, can't remember how to check for/fix that...someone will chime in, hopefully...