Just installed Mint xfce and having same problem with maintaining sound settings. Pulse audio wiki gives this.
Pulseaudio usually overwrites the ALSA settings- for example set with alsamixer- at start up, even when the alsa daemon is loaded. Since there seems to be no other way to restrict this behaviour, a workaround is to restore the alsa settings again after pulseaudio had started. Add the following command to .xinitrc .bash_login or any other autostart file: restore_alsa() { while [ -z "`pidof pulseaudio`" ]; do sleep 0.5 done alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state restore } restore_alsa & could not find either of these filed but appended to end of user .profile and it works. Would adding this to .profile programatically solve the issue -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926688 Title: upstart task alsa-restore has no effect To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/926688/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs