I have a number of machines using Centos 6.8 They have M-Audio sound cards. When I set the output levels using alsamixer and save using 'alsactrl store' [creating a requested directory] the settings do not restore on reboot. I have no idea why they don't. running 'alsactrl restore' works so the settings are being saved. I think the on board card settings are loaded OK /var/lib/alsa/asound.state seems to have the right permissions, and I can find no errors in any logs. My fix is to run a script from /etc/rc.local which runs on restart and sends me an email --------------snip----------------- #! /bin/bash date > /home/rd/soundset.log alsactl restore cat /home/rd/soundset.log |mail -s 'sound set ' your at email.com exit 0 --------------snip----------------- It's either Centos or Alsa. Did not have this in earlier systems. regards Robert -- *Big Valley Radio* 64 Warner Park Avenue Laingholm Auckland 0604 09 8176358 0221693124 06 650 6087