Comment 24 for bug 432660

I found, or rather stumbled on to, a workaround to the problem. At the end of the day I usually go from logged in to shutdown of my computer. More recently, when I went to shutdown the machine a box popped up asking me for the password to get root perms. I don't remember if it was now asking for root perms to allow shutdown or it thought another user was logged in. Instead of giving the password (as i wasn't sure why the box popped up at that time), I hit a Cancel in the dialog and that logged me out to the gdm login screen instead of doing a shutdown. I then did the shutdown from the gdm screen.

The next day when I went to turn on my computer, I was surprised to find that the alsa mixer settings were restored properly. It played a sound which I could hear after entering my password when logging in. All sounds from gdm were audible without me having to open up the mixer settings and reset things.

It seems to me that mixer settings are not save when going from logged in to system shutdown. Mixer settings are being saved when you logout before a shutdown. This should give help someone to track down the problem and get it fixed. If you have to keep fiddling with audio settings on each boot, just log out to gdm before you next shutdown. You should not have to fiddle with the settings after the next boot.