Alsa channels muted - why

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

I know I saw a change about this in the rawhide logs a few weeks ago, 
but it's still not working for me - I have 31 volume in asound.state,
and yet it's STILL muted after a forced reboot. This problem has 
been there forever - I don't think I've ever been able to get sound
out of my system after a crash without messing with the mixer.
This is a very annoying bug, and I'd like to help track down the cause
of it.

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Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
Cornell University