ALSA - after everyboot, too loud (100% volume).

Hi!
I've beem some problems with alsa. Every time when I start my laptop, the sound is 100%... too loud.
After use "alsamixer" to normalize... and "alsactl store" to save the changes... after reboot, sound is 100% again... changes take no effect and sound is too loud again.
$ alsactl store
alsactl: state_lock:114: file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state lock error: File exists
alsactl: state_lock:114: file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state unlock error: File exists
I've tried others ways (links below).. after reboot sound is 100% again...
1 - http://alsa.opensrc.org/How_to_use_soft … ter_volume
2 - http://superuser.com/questions/424982/v … sound-card
3 - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … o/Examples
Could someone help me please?
Thanks in advance!!

I would investigate if the alsa-restore.service alsa-state.service and alsa-store.service , that are part of the alsa-utils package work properly. these are responsible for saving/restoring the values in var/lib/alsa/asound.state.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … chitecture

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