Alsa will not save sound level

[brechtvb]

Linux is still not saving my alsa-settings, including the sound level. I tried reïnstalling, recompiling Alsa and many other things

/etc/asound.state
/etc/asound.names

do exist and are chmodded 777

aplay-l

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**** Lijst van PLAYBACK hardware-apparaten ****
kaart 0: Intel [HDA Intel], apparaat 0: ALC861 Analog [ALC861 Analog]
  Sub-apparaten: 1/1
  Sub-apparaat #0: subdevice #0
kaart 0: Intel [HDA Intel], apparaat 1: ALC861 Digital [ALC861 Digital]
  Sub-apparaten: 1/1
  Sub-apparaat #0: subdevice #0
kaart 0: Intel [HDA Intel], apparaat 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
  Sub-apparaten: 1/1
  Sub-apparaat #0: subdevice #0

/etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop

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open: Permission denied
 * Shutting down ALSA...                                                        open: Permission denied
 * warning: 'alsactl store' failed with error message 'alsactl: get_control:209: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Master Playback Volume,0': No such file or directory'...                                                                       amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: No such file or directory
open: Permission denied

lsmod | grep snd

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snd_hda_intel         344728  0 
snd_pcm_oss            42144  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17920  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                78596  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           4868  0 
snd_seq_oss            35584  0 
snd_seq_midi            9376  0 
snd_rawmidi            25760  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      8320  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                54224  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              24836  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9612  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    56996  11 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               8800  1 snd

If there is any more info you need, i will post it.

[Husse]

Which Mint?

[brechtvb]

The latest one. I have the same problem in ubuntu 8.04

[Husse]

I think it may be something with pulse audio

[brechtvb]

It is still the "alsactl store" command that fails. But every sollution that i found for it also fails.

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brecht@brecht-laptop ~ $ sudo alsactl store
[sudo] password for brecht: 
alsactl: get_control:209: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Master Playback Volume,0': No such file or directory