Yesterday I solved the problem of missing sound on this workstation and stored the settings (Audigy 1 soundcard). I put 'alsactl restore' into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This morning when I booted up there was no sound. Running alsamixer showed that the settings had been restored. I ran system-config-soundcard and found that I could only get white noise and a faint sound - which was where I started from yesterday. Experimentation quickly found that one setting, Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack, was being switched on every time I ran the test sound. It must be off, for sound to work properly. I suspect that what is happening at boot-time is that alsactl is being restored, but then Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack is being switched back on when the start-up sound should occur. I don't know whether this is a FC problem or a KDE one. If I can't solve it, I can live with it, now that I know what's happening, but has anyone any ideas for a better solution? Anne
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