Comment 7 for bug 988098

@Insane1 that approach works for me but only survives the session within which it's done.. I have to redo it every time a reboot occurs (and since I have a laptop that moves around a lot, reboots are quite frequent creatures). Note that I can do the same solution just using alsamixer and changing speaker volume, but in both cases ( pavucontrol or alsamixer), the settings change is "forgotten" on shutdown.

I had the exact same problem 2 or 3 LTSs ago and ended up having to manually do some pretty crazy low-level stuff to work around it.. I'm really hoping I won't have to do that again.