On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 08:40:43AM +0100, tim hall wrote: > > another problem is, the system sound configuration doesn't seem to get > > saved. that is, when i re-start i have to run > > mopprobe snd-powermac > > alsaconf > > then i can use the alsa mixer and pd audio runs. there seems to be no > > way now to control sound, aside from using the alsa mixer. > > where should i go from here? > > try putting > snd-powermac > into /etc/modules - it should then load at boot-time, which gives you an even > chance of alsa autoconfiguring itself. Should be enough to put 'snd' into /etc/modules. The root cause is this line in /etc/init.d/alsa start(): [ -d /proc/asound ] || ... -- Martin