Gene Heskett wrote:

> and type in the fix it: alsactl restore.

perhaps try alsactl store ? It helps.

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.

regards