All Dell systems with i810 chipset, after rebooting system, audio cd in gnome will not play sound. until the mixer is opened see below lsmod before and after.Module (lsmod before) Size Used by ide-cd 26880 0 (autoclean) cdrom 27392 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] NVdriver 621200 12 (autoclean) autofs 11792 1 (autoclean) 3c59x 26048 0 (autoclean) (unused) ipchains 41632 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21888 0 (unused) usbcore 52352 1 [usb-uhci] (lsmod after opening mixer) Module Size Used by i810_audio 15632 0 (autoclean) ac97_codec 8832 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio] soundcore 4816 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio] ide-cd 26880 0 (autoclean) cdrom 27392 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] NVdriver 621200 12 (autoclean) autofs 11792 1 (autoclean) 3c59x 26048 0 (autoclean) (unused) ipchains 41632 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21888 0 (unused) usbcore 52352 1 [usb-uhci]
this is not an aumix bug.
or a kernel bug. In fact, it's not really a bug. The module is not loaded, so mixer settings are not initialized. A gross hack was added to control-center-1.2.2-8 so that the module gets loaded when gnome starts, but it's certainly not the best solution.