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is easily fixed by going to the 'detect sound card' menu in GNOME and increasing the sound level using the slider there. Funnily the after exiting the utility, the slider goes back to where it was but the thing does not go mute. I suggest you try tinkering with any such utility if you have.

set the volumes and alsactl store 1 alsactl restore 1. put this in some startup script.

Thanks, but it did not work out.

I use system-config-soundcard to set the sound card volume levels to full. Then did: [rishi@Sunflower ~]$ sudo /sbin/alsactl store 1 [rishi@Sunflower ~]$ sudo /sbin/alsactl restore 1 On running system-config-soundcard the volumes are again at the mid-point of the bar.

Is this a Fedora Core 5 bug? Anybody reported it already?

Regards, Debarshi