Sorry... I've forgotten this thread for a while... Anyways, after changing your settings you can make them persistent with Code: alsactl store 0 Where 0 is the soundcard-ID. Should be the same as the number on alsamixer -c X. However I'd reccomend you to create a backup of of your /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for the case you messed up with the mixer. Again, I haven't tried this myself on Maemo yet as I'm fine with the default volume settings. This is just stuff I know from other Linux distros.
alsactl store 0