Kubuntu11.10, kde 4.8.2

After some fooling around I finally got the mic working

I have to set internal mic to 100% and capture in kmix mixer to 50% to get it to work with skype.

But after a reboot internal mic and capture are reset to 0.
How can I get kmix to save that setting?

My firend is an ex windows user and telling her to reset kmix after every computer start/wakeup confuses her no end.

I tried changing the setting in alsamix then:

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sudo alsactl store

Nada.
I also tried pluse audi mixer but the mic sounds terrible, so I scrapped pulse and only have alsa.

Where can I edit a file so that the kmix restarts with the changes active?

I looked at~/.kde/config/kmixctrlrc but that didn't help.

For me pulseaudio works perfectly fine, using current Kubuntu 12.04 beta 2. I just set everything to maximum in Alsa, then use the Veromix plasmoid to fine-tune Pulseaudio where needed. Removing default setups is not necessarily a good idea, as this is the best tested option. I haven't run into Pulseaudio problems since the start of 11.10.

Thank you for that and I am happy it has been working for you. Unfotunately pulse just doen't work here. I tried veromix. couldn't find a microphone, and that is what i need.

Still don't know how to save kmix settings.

KMix should restore the settings.
Have you checked to see if any other scripts, provided by your distribution, are re-disabling it?

Probably Bug #293043. See comments for workaround.

Thank you for that. It seems to work on my system. I'll have to check my freinds system.
Cheers