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Sound is muted and level 0 at startup

Asked by Mike Cummings

I have an Nforce 2 chipset with a Cmedia onbord soundcard. In past versions of Ubuntu, I have sometimes encountered problems with the sound, and had to configure it manually, but it seemed to load fine in 8.04. Upon doing a fresh install of 9.04 Jaunty, the card seems to work ok, except for one thing; at startup, the sound is muted, and the PCM levels are at zero. Each time I start my system, I must manually set the sound level, and then it works fine. Anyone have any ideas?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I have this too. I created a script that runs at bootup:

#!/bin/bash
amixer -q set PCM 80% unmute

I have personally found no other way to do it, it works although isnt very graceful but makes it work

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