PulseAudio in Fedora 8

"I lose those settings with every reboot and as a consequence,
if I want to use the microphone after a reboot, I have to run
alsamixer again."

One thing that might be causing this, and is soo obvious that some
people may miss it :) is that If you use kde, then be sure to uncheck
the setting "restore volume levels at startup" or something like
that (I'm going from memory here and my memory isn't too good :))
in kmix. Otherwise the sound levels are changed to what kmix thinks
they should be when you log in to kde.

Or then use kmix and set the sound levels there, but then be aware
that the sound levels you set in alsamixer are going to change when
you log into kde. This way doesn't work too well in a multi user
environment with many X servers running at the same time and many
users logged/logging in, as kmix changes the volume level with every
new user logging in, so I alwasys use the first variant and uncheck
the "restore" setting in kmix for every user.

Guess there is something similar in gnome also, but I haven't checked.


Tomas