Sound is muted after every boot

[benerivo]

When i installed debian (unstable), my sound card (Creative Labs SB Audigy) was detected straight away and it works perfectly, only that the alsa mixer settings are never saved. By default, the main volume channel is set to 0 (mute), so i have to manually change it every time i boot the computer. I have looked at these solutions but neither work...

Append these lines to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/init.d/alsasound
/usr/bin/amixer set Master 50 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/amixer set PCM 50 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1
/dev/null /usr/bin/amixer set CD 50 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1

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Sound is always "0" and muted after booting - Ubuntu Forums

I should mention that these solutions suggest altering files that are not present on my setup (ie. /etc/init.d/alsasound) so i had to create them. I'm guessing my solution might be that i need to save/modify my alsa sound settings elsewhere.

[devils casper]

Have you tried this

su -
alsactl store

?
Adjust sound settings ( alsamixer ) before executing those commands.

[benerivo]

alsactl store

returns

-su: alsactl: command not found

[devils casper]

Okk ! Execute this

su -
nano /etc/rc.local

Add these lines in the file

/usr/bin/amixer set Master 50 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1 
/usr/bin/amixer set PCM 50 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1 
/dev/null /usr/bin/amixer set CD 50 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1 

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file. Reboot machine.

[benerivo]

Thanks, but it didn't work. Also, I don't have a file called /usr/bin/amixer which could be the problem. Would installing a package from the repositories fix all of this?

[devils casper]

I have that file in my Debian box.
Comment out those lines in /etc/rc.local file and execute this

su -
apt-get update
apt-get install alsa-utils alsa-base

I just check that alsactl is not available in my system too but I dont have any sound mute problem.

[benerivo]

Hey Presto! It's fixed. I thought this may be have been the problem when i saw your other solution mentioned 'amixer'. Thanks for the help.

I think the problem comes from my installation, which is just gnome-core (on top of a command line install).

[devils casper]

I had similar problem a few months back. It wasn't sound mute problem though. gnome-core doesn't include necessary Alsa packages. Glad to help you !!