Caveat: if alsaconf succeded in configuring your soundcard and you want your sound modules to stay loaded at all times add these couple of lines at the very end of the /etc/modules.conf file that was changed by alsaconf: # -- Keep modules from being autocleaned add options -k snd-card-0 RedHat has an autoclean process that runs every 10 minutes and removes kernel modules that have not been used for a while. Ken John Bleichert wrote: > Hello All > > On this workstation here at work I never log out from Monday morning to > Friday evening, sometimes longer, but still every morning when I come in I > have to run alsamixer to unmute and bring up the volume on my sound card. > What can I do to keep alsa from "timing out" like this? This is an > intel8x0 chipset that otherwise works fine. > > Thanks - JB > > // John Bleichert > // syborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >