why after reboot sounds are mute in the volume control?

[shams]

hi,
i upgraded to fc3 from fc2,there is test sound with soundcard detection,by default evey sound was muted in the volume control,i unmute all these,but then when i reboot there was no sound events,beacuse all the sounds was muted again in the volume control after reboot,plz help where is the problem?

[jtang613]

I've got this same problem with my SB Live. Apparently the Freindly folks at Fedora (or ALSA) concluded that their software was too perfect, so they decided to introduce a few bugs in this latest release.

Way to go team

[jeremie]

i had a similar problem on a Toshiba A70.
the following worked for me:

Note that snd-atiixp is the name of my soundcard.

[...] open /etc/rc.d/rc.local and
append to the end of the file the following:

/sbin/modprobe snd-atiixp
amixer set Master 90% unmute
amixer set PCM 90% unmute

The above setting just unmutes the sound and puts it at 90%
volume. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

I got this information from here http://plaza.ufl.edu/redboots/

[killaweegee]

I was having this same problem when I came across this. Try going to menu>>>preferences>>>control panel>>>sounds>> and then put a check in the box that says sound server startup. It seemed to fix my problem.

[PeTzZz]

I made a little search and found these threads that may help you too:
the first one (from the second post) and this one.

[jtang613]

Hey, right on PeTzZz! You're today's MVP!

The solution (to persitant mute on reboot) was found in a link on one of those posts.

/sbin/MAKEDEV -d /etc/udev/devices/ sound

Now my volume is saved and restored every time I reboot.

[chiku31]

Thanks everybody. I got my problem fixed too with: /sbin/MAKEDEV -d /etc/udev/devices/ sound