Myra Nelson wrote: > Currently I don't want to try to migrate /usr to /. / is only 4 GB and > /usr is 8+ GB and everything works to well so I'll just do a fresh > install later. Otherwise sudo /usr/bin/alsactl start works well. You could also put a line into etc/rc.local : /etc/rc.d/alsa start || echo "cannot '/etc/rc.d/alsa start': $?" clemens