[SOLVED] No sound in speakers on Asus eee 1001px

* Why am I writing this in "Help & Support" when I don't need help with it? Because I figure this is where someone else might look for a solution.

PROBLEM: After installing CB Statler on my Asus ee 1001px I noticed I did not have any sound through the speakers, only through headphones. I searched the forums and it seemed like some other people had experienced the same thing.

TEMPORARY SOLUTION: It was suggested to me that I run alsamixer, where I found that the speaker volume was indeed set to zero. Raising this to 100% produces not-very-loud volume, but at least gets the speakers going.

NEW PROBLEM: Alsamixer doesn't save its settings, so everytime you reboot, the speaker volume is set to 0 again.

The problem with alsamixer's reluctance to keep settings after reboot has been discussed elsewhere, but I didn't see a solution at the time when I was troubleshooting this.

I decided to go with a primitive solution: just run a command on startup. Maybe there is a more professional way around this, involving the communication between the internal soundcard and the CB structure, I wouldn't know since I am n00b.

So here it goes: edit autostart
(either right-click anywhere on the desktop and select Settings -> Openbox -> Edit autostart, or find the autostart file in /home/<your folder>/.config/openbox/)

and place this line somewhere in the file

amixer set Speaker playback 100%

Note that this is NOT the same as master volume. You can still have a moderate master volume set in your normal volume tray. so the fact that this little line maximizes the speakers on every startup does not mean that you will have an obscene disco every time you boot.