[Alsa-user] Silence, temporarily, after sleep

[Brandon K. <br...@30...>]

I am running alsa (alsa-base 1.0.5a-3, alsa-utils 1.0.5-3) on Debian with
a 2.6.8 kernel on an IBM T23 laptop.  The Desktop environment is a
modern Gnome.

The system works well (though I have some quarrel with esd) with one
exception: when the system wakes up after sleep, any applications with
sound play silently.  The fix is to run alsamixer and frob BOTH the
"Master" setting AND the "PCM" setting -- just ticking each by one tap is
enough to turn on the sound again, and the fix lasts until the next time
the system goes to sleep.

Surprisingly, both 'Master' and 'PCM' need to be frobbed, in any order,
but the sound does not come on until both have been adjusted.  All other
volume bars on alsamixer are set to 0.

Until the above fix is applied, frobbing Gnome's volume has no effect, and
using the thinkpad's built-in volume buttons has no effect - all I hear is
stony silence, even as I watch the audio spectrum bars on xmms bounce up
and down.  After the above procedure is followed, both those controls work
as expected.

This is a minor annoyance, but I would like to fix it.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brandon