I wouldn't like that =]

Example:
You shutdown your computer around nighttime after watching a movie where the audio volume was not properly gained so the alsa script saves it as 100%.

You wake up in the morning, boot up and play some music and blast your shorts off.

I like having a static config when I boot.

Just put in 'alsactrl restore' in rc.local, there's really no need for a script. Other than 'start' the stop and restart parts would do nothing.

I think it is a good idea to save it each time you shutdown. Otherwise you'll change the volume and forget to save it and be annoyed next time you reboot.

Here's a script i wrote for myself. Call it /etc/rc.d/alsa and add alsa to /etc/rc.conf

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Restoring ALSA state"
alsactl restore
add_daemon alsa
stat_done
;;
stop)
stat_busy "Saving ALSA state"

alsactl store
rm_daemon alsa
stat_done
;;
restart)
$0 stop

$0 start
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac

Just because the script is included doesn't mean you have to use it. I vote for one as well.

Jason is right, it'd only set your volume if you added it to your daemons list... It's a pain going through the Wiki to get that script on every installation... I vote for a script

I think the script should be included in alsa-utils

script would be nice indeed. lot's of people don't know that they have to use a cmdline mixer to unmute the sound and turn the volume up (well, perhaps you could do this in gnome/kde as well, I should try), run alsactl store and then put alsactl restore in rc.local

In these modern ages, we expect our volume settings to be saved and loaded when we reboot, without even having to know what ALSA is :)

This bug has been around for 11 months now... Is this ever going to be added to the alsa-utils package? Now would be a good time now that we just added the audio group!

I also think that the script should be a part of the alsa-utils package, as has been stated you don't have to use it but it would be nice to have rather than going to the wiki every time.

what's the status on this ?