hello I've finally got asla sound working, however I've found whenever I turn my pc off the sound vanishes, on investigation I've found the gnome volume control defaluts all settings to zero (lock is checked) can anyone tell me how to sort this out. Thanks

if you log in as root and after already setting where you want your default audio, you should be able to simply save it by typing :
IF IT DOESN'T WORK
Tell me if you have the file : /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa
Since I don't know what distro your using, it may also be something like /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa .. Worse case scenrio, just do a search for rc.alsa ..

Thanks that did the trick!

Wouldn't you think the system would do that automatically?

Get that Windows off your mind

This sounds like exactly the same problem I'm having. How would I repeat the above in ubuntu where it won't let me log in as root?

I tried just going
after I had set the volume levels to what I wanted, but no luck.

I also notice that i have /sbin/alsactl as well as /usr/sbin/alsactl, so when I did the above I used the one that worked.

Everytime I reboot at the moment, the sound settings are reset to the default - most annoyingly, the default microphone is muted.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated - I'm pretty stuck here.