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you can do an alsactl restore in your .profile, in  a boot script,
or almost anywhere that executes on boot or log in.
the static might mean that your volume and pcm are maxed out and output gain. try lowering them and raising yoru speaker volume - this works for me, probably not for you
unless you have the same sound card.