Alsa channels muted - why

[Bill Nottingham]

Ivan Gyurdiev (ivg2 at cornell.edu) said: 
> I know I saw a change about this in the rawhide logs a few weeks ago, 
> but it's still not working for me - I have 31 volume in asound.state,
> and yet it's STILL muted after a forced reboot. This problem has 
> been there forever - I don't think I've ever been able to get sound
> out of my system after a crash without messing with the mixer.
> This is a very annoying bug, and I'd like to help track down the cause
> of it.

Can you add strace (or whatever) to /etc/dev.d/sound/alsa.dev and
try and capture what it's doing, and how it's succeeding or failing?

I'm assuming a simple 'alsactl restore' works to fix it?

Bill