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Description of problem: I have a Dell Optiplex Gx280 connected to amplified external speakers via the headphone port. The volume level is almost always too loud no matter how low I set the system volume. Alsamixer reports the headphone jack as always at max volume upon boot. I've have tried lowering this volume and then saving it with 'alsactl store' but the settings never get restored on boot. I wasn't sure where the problem truly was - in alsa or pulseaudio. Alsamixer reports the internal audio card as Intel ICH6 and the audio chip as AD1981B.
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I have same problem in Fedora 17 on a Dell Dimension 4500 with Intel ICH4. Related discussion: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263730 Like OP, I tried to used: alsactl -c0 and alsactl store 0 to store a value a reasonable value (40%) for the headphone jack. But after a reboot, the value is back to 100%. Manually issuing the command: $ sudo alsactl restore 0 works. So I tried putting that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: $ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local #!/bin/sh alsactl restore 0 but this didn't work. I figured something else later in the boot or Gnome startup process is setting it to 100%. So I put a one minute delay on the command using 'at': $ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local #!/bin/sh at now + 1 minutes <<< 'alsactl restore 0' That worked.