Dianne, the solution we're using in Lucid is not to mute the card(s) on reboot/shutdown. See the changelog for [Lucid's] alsa-utils for the historical situation and change rationale.
** Package changed: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) => alsa-utils (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: alsa-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- [Xubuntu Karmic] Pulseaudio doesn't save volumes when rebooting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449783 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs