Mic boost gets muted after reboot

07:04.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] [13f6:8788]
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Virtuoso 100 (Xonar Essence STX) [1043:835c]
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 32 (500ns min, 6000ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
	NUMA node: 0
	IOMMU group: 12
	Region 0: I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_virtuoso
	Kernel modules: snd_virtuoso

Thx, I blacklisted the intel module. I’ll give it a try and see how it works.

As a related question: What would be the most optimal settings for my PA daemon.conf

Following this link

https://furneaux.ca/wiki/ASUS_Xonar_Essence_STX#Linux

these settings should be optimal,

resample-method = speex-float-7

default-sample-format = s24le
default-sample-rate = 192000

but I get crackling when I listen to one video while some streams are being played and it seems to be correlated to the sample rate. I tried 192000, 96000 and 48000, the higher the number the more crackling. Also how can I figure out what the best speex-float setting is? You seem to have some insight as you commented on this thread of the Level1Forum: