No state is present for card Intel

Upon upgrading to Feisty to Gutsy:

My normal `alsamixer` screen was reduced to simple controls Headphone / PCM / Front.

Upon further research I believe this to be what happened:
`alsactl --help` shows "-f,--file # configuration file (default /var/lib/alsa/asound.state or /etc/asound.names)"

Works fine:
root@x60s:/home/ecarroll/code/postgresql# alsactl restore -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
root@x60s:/home/ecarroll/code/postgresql#

Doesn't work:
root@x60s:/home/ecarroll/code/postgresql# alsactl restore -f /etc/asound.names
No state is present for card Intel

Doesn't work:
root@x60s:/usr/share/alsa/cards# alsactl restore -f HDA-Intel.conf
No state is present for card Intel

So alsa will no longer acknowledge I have HDA-Intel installed. ( even though I'm 99.9% sure that is true )

root@x60s:/usr/share/alsa/cards# lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 12808 1
snd_hda_intel 277024 2
rfcomm 42136 0
l2cap 26240 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 56548 4 rfcomm,l2cap
nvram 9992 1
uinput 10368 1
ppdev 10244 0
ipv6 273892 14
i915 25728 2
drm 83348 3 i915
acpi_cpufreq 10568 0
cpufreq_userspace 5280 0
cpufreq_stats 7232 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9612 2
freq_table 5792 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative 8072 0
video 17544 0
sbs 19592 0
button 8848 0
bay 6912 0
dock 10656 1 bay
battery 11012 0
container 5504 0
ac 6148 0
xfs 575192 1
fuse 47124 1
sbp2 24072 0
parport_pc 37412 0
lp 12580 0
parport 37448 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
irtty_sir 9856 0
sir_dev 17412 1 irtty_sir
snd_pcm_oss 44672 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 80388 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10244 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 33152 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25728 1 snd_seq_midi
pcmcia 41388 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
nsc_ircc 24336 0
snd_seq 53232 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
irda 202300 3 irtty_sir,sir_dev,nsc_ircc
wlan_scan_sta 15104 1
ath_rate_sample 14208 1
psmouse 39952 0
crc_ccitt 3072 1 irda
sdhci 18700 0
mmc_core 28420 1 sdhci
snd_timer 24324 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9228 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
ath_pci 98336 0
wlan 206660 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 192720 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
serio_raw 8068 0
yenta_socket 27532 1
rsrc_nonstatic 14080 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 40980 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd 54660 12 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 2 snd
intel_agp 25620 1
agpgart 35016 3 drm,intel_agp
iTCO_wdt 11940 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
af_packet 24840 6
shpchp 34580 0
pci_hotplug 32704 1 shpchp
evdev 11136 5
ext3 133768 1
jbd 60456 1 ext3
mbcache 9732 1 ext3
sg 36764 0
sd_mod 30336 4
ata_piix 15876 3
ohci1394 36528 0
ieee1394 96312 2 sbp2,ohci1394
e1000 126272 0
ata_generic 8452 0
libata 127344 2 ata_piix,ata_generic
scsi_mod 147084 4 sbp2,sg,sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd 36108 0
uhci_hcd 26640 0
usbcore 137864 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 14344 0
processor 31944 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan 5764 0
apparmor 55836 0
commoncap 8320 1 apparmor
aamatch_pcre 16768 1 apparmor
root@x60s:/usr/share/alsa/cards# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 277024 2
snd_pcm_oss 44672 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 80388 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10244 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 33152 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25728 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 53232 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24324 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9228 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 54660 12 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 2 snd

snd_intel_hda is loaded, and not by me..

On a side note, when I upgraded to gutsy I went with package maintainers version of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and I'm not sure if one of the things blacklisted in feisty was keeping out some conflicting module, I do remember the replacement was shorter.

The non-technical effect is things aren't as loud, presumably because there is no longer a "Master" switcher, to go with PCM and increase volume.