How to save alsamixer settings in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick (working after reboot)

Here is how to save alsamixer settings permanently, so that you don't need to restore them after reboot manually:

1. Open Terminal and run alsamixer. Change your settings and exit.
2. Save alsamixer settings by running
   

   sudo alsactl store 0

3. Go to System -> preferences -> Startup applications and the following
   

   sudo alsactl restore

   This will restore alsamixer settings after reboot.

I had problems with alsamixer 1.0.23 not saving Line Jack and Mic Jack settings in Ubuntu Maverick. After rebooting my computer I had to change the settings again. The above mentioned trick didn't help me to solve the problem. Do you have a better solution?

[rsv]

what I did was purge and install all my alsa packages again.

Like this:

sudo aptitude search "alsa" | grep "^i"

i alsa-base - ALSA driver configuration files
i alsa-oss - ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
i A alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
i alsamixergui - graphical soundcard mixer for ALSA soundca
i gstreamer0.10-alsa - GStreamer plugin for ALSA


Then I do a :

sudo aptitude purge alsa-base ..... all of them


then I do:

sudo aptitude install alsa-base ... the same packages...


and after several test reboots all works..

ubuntu 12.04 - latest updates on a Dell l502x aka xps 15.

[rsv]

I tried all the other fixes and probably in this way have messed up some setting...

The reinstall of all alsa packages was the easiest way to start fresh.