Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Thursday 04 August 2016 20:58:50 deloptes wrote:
> 
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > and type in the fix it: alsactl restore.
>>
>> perhaps try alsactl store ? It helps.
> 
> Only if you have called up the alsoctl.gui and made it functional.
> No use storing defective settings into your home dir.
> 
>> No issue here with the sound and never had, though this problem was
>> visible from time to time during the years on different machines after
>> upgrades, migration to new hardware etc etc. Storing the settings
>> solves it. This should be called on shutdown/reboot as well same as
>> restore on boot by the init script AFAIR.
>> I am not sure if TDE saves the state. My impression is it reads the
>> state from alsa.
> 
> In which case it is reading a defective file in /root since the shutdowen
> and init stuff runs as root, whereas if I run the restore from a
> terminal, as me, then it reads a good file from my home dir, one that I
> previously saved after calling up the gui as me and making it work.
> 

It is neither in user dir not in root dir. It is saved in
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state

regards