Sebastian's bug -- orthogonal to the one in this bug report since his hardware uses both a different dsp and a different codec -- at least from the driver side is fixed in alsa-driver 1.0.13. The patches were sent to kernel-team@ in early October.
I suspect Dino's issue, which may also affect Sebastian, lies in post- session-restore for whatever desktop environment is being used. What desktop environment(s) is(are) being used? There was formerly an issue with 6.06 where Xfce's mixer did interesting things. -- Low volume on ICH3 https://launchpad.net/bugs/64356 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs