On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:19:25 +0530 "Vivek J. Patankar" <list307@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Surprisingly this hasn't been discussed on the list as often as certain > other issues. This makes me wonder if this happens with only a few users > and not everyone. Well, considering many of the other linux surprises, I just assumed this was something that someone thought was a feature rather than a bug, so I didn't bother to ask about it :-). I was contemplating putting some explicit amixer calls in my login scripts, but having seen this thread, I've just added /sbin/salsa -l (an earlier message said -r, but it is -l on my system) to rc.local and I'll see how it goes.