<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I answered my own question: Sound on PCLOS is Alsa and /etc/init.d/sound starts the daemon.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Looking at that file suggested that /etc/asound.state held all the settings of my current sound card settings. It also had a command in there to store the configuration. </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">alsactl -f my.sound.settings store</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Once this was done, I copied that file to /etc/asound.state as root. Problem Solved.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">-GGR</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" clear="all"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">--</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Rajiv G Gunja</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/8 Rajiv Gunja <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opn.src.rocks@gmail.com">opn.src.rocks@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Hello,</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I am running PCLOS 2007 with updates, which would mean I am on PCLOS 2008. Since I upgraded to <a href="http://2.6.26.6" target="_blank">2.6.26.6</a>, my volume settings seem to reset every time i reboot. It is not a big deal as I reboot once every 20 or more days. But it can get annoying sometimes if I forget about it and make skype calls and people are not able to hear me.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Is there a way to force the settings at boot time? Please let me know. I remember many years ago when amixer was the default, there was a command line way to set it to default.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">-GGR</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">--</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Rajiv G Gunja</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
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