Comment 5 for bug 557016

if you look at http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-utils.git;a=blob;f=alsactl/state.c

        sprintf(name, "hw:%d", card);
        dbg("device='%s', doit=%i", name, doit);
         err = snd_ctl_open(&handle, name, 0);

it only use snd_card_next() to find out all the alsa cards and open those hw:x ctl device . it does not save any setting of the pulse device

it seem that you don't have permission to write the state file

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