FC2 Sound - Go Figure

[David Curry]

This morning I was startled to hear sound on intiating my mail reader!  
This prompted me to consider using the subject thread, "How to succeed 
without even trying" in reporting problem solved.

Prior to today, each time the system was booted volume controls on the 
Alsamixer were set at zero.  Studying man pages, ALSA documentation, and 
Googling many hours over many days had failed to lead to a solution.  
After each boot, I would Gnome Menu -->  Sound & Video --> Volume 
Control --> raise volume sliders on Alsa and OSS mixers (and sometimes 
unmute Master Mono).  Sometimes I would right click the Gnome Panel 
volume control icon and select "open volume control".

Yesterday, I left clicked the Gnome Panel volume control icon and raised 
the single slider that popped up.  That's all, Folks!  Done deal!  When 
I booted the system this morning, sound volume was already turned on.  
Go Figure!