Andy Choens doesn't seem to have had any responses to: > 2) When I turn my computer on, my volume is set to mute on most of the > channels. I've tried resetting it with amixer and alsamixer both as a > normal user and root. But, when I reset and check the settings on > alsamixer, they are muted again. On a desktop this wouldn't be a big > deal since it would rarely be reset, but on a laptop this is a bit of a > pain. Have you tried running "alsactl store"? You might want to script that for shutdown. What sound hardware do you have? James. -- E-mail address: james@ | grateful degradation, n.: the opposite of graceful westexe.demon.co.uk | degradation; the computer goes down at the least | provocation. Examples are left as an exercise for | the vendor.