Problems with alsaconf

[surreal <firewalrus@gmail.com>]

All of a sudden my soundcard refused to work. I used 'alsaconf' and it detected the card. I was able to use it but after a reboot all settings seem to have lost.

Please help. What happened all of a sudden that the card that was working well decided to misbehave and its not saving the settings too..! 

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Harshad Joshi