No center speaker after stan

Everything works fine with my soundblaster li've 5. and logitech 5. speakers, but when I entered stand-by or hibernation mode, my center speaker doesnt work anymore. Then I'll have to reboot in order to have it working again. It's very annoying and I'd like to know how do fix this.
Thanks in advance.

No replies? I posted this on several forums but nobody ever replies :'(

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xym@Arch ~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
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Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
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speaker-test 1.0.27.2
Playback device is default
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Using 16 octaves of pink noise
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Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 16384
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was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 5.651882
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 5.973485
0 - Front Left
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As you have already gone into alsamixer to ensure the appropriate channels are unmuted & set at the desired level, have you also gone into your KDE systems settings -> Multimedia -> Audio and Video Settings & rechecked your settings?
sorry，it's really misleading in my words.what i want to say is 'no sound after update, and the sound system is alsa.'
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