After doing 'alsactl store' and rebooting, volume settings are not saved. I've installed the libs, drivers and utils from ALSA's website and the version is 1.0.14.

$cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CK804 ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22


Something else of possible interest is the following...

$sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driver: done
Starting sound driver: snd-intel8x0 done
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1329: No soundcards found...


However, after reboot, I do not have to run alsaconf again like I do after restarting alsasound.

I've read that maybe adding 'alsactl restore' to rc.local would do the trick but I'm not sure where to add it... anywhere in the file, or what?


Thanks

On my Nvidia550 MoBo the soundriver is intelHDA?
What is lsmod showing?

snd_intel8x0 41256 4
snd_ac97_codec 117720 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 90120 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 28552 2 snd_pcm
snd 67176 10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ac97_bus 7040 1 snd_ac97_codec
soundcore 13088 2 snd,i810_audio
snd_page_alloc 15120 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Can anyone offer any help to a fellow Linux user? I don't reboot too often, but it is nevertheless a rather bothersome problem.
Thanks

Does alsaconfig detect the card properly and automatically?

Yes, it does.

The file where alsactl stores volume information is /etc/asound.state
If the card is visible to alsamixer, it can be edited by hand...
Is Your module 'snd_intel8x0' blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist ? It would prevent auto-loading