Do the plant alsa rpm's install init scripts to start/stop alsa? I'm currently running them, but my mixer settings don't seem to get saved between boots, and I don't see starting/stopping/saving mixer settings messages on boot/shutdown. I do have a /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound script, but it doesn't seem to be getting called - I believe this is a remnant of a previous install of alsa, but I'm not sure. Kevin Bowen