After having installed the current speakup version of fc3 (current here is what was available for download December 27, 2004), I used alsamixer and set master unmuted and to 100% all other controls that were muted were likewise set to 100% and unmuted. Then I hit escape and did the alsactl store command. Then I tried both aplay -q /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav as a command and also tried play /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav and in both cases heard the sounds of silence. The alsamixer on subsequent run after a modification to /etc/rc.d/rc.local which had alsactl restore added to it did find my sound card with all 100% and unmuted settings. I think udev is likely to shape up as the NMCI of linux and am going to replace this instance of FC3 with slackware 10.0, I need to access my zip drive whether the sound card will work or not. Since conventional radio reception in this area of the country is aweful, having a broadband connection and a working sound card is helpful if you want to listen to radio short of a satellite radio. There are other people on fedora-list dealing with trying to get internal zip drives working because of udev.
