On Saturday 12 Aug 2017 09:05:10 Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-08-12 17:39, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > (5). Postinst message for alsa-utils:
> > pkg_postinst() {
> > if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]]; then
> > elog
> > elog "To take advantage of the init script, and automate the process of"
> > elog "saving and restoring sound-card mixer levels you should"
> > elog "add alsasound to the boot runlevel. You can do this as"
> > elog "root like so:"
> > elog "# rc-update add alsasound boot"
> > ewarn
> > ewarn "The ALSA core should be built into the kernel or loaded through
> > other" ewarn "means. There is no longer any modular auto(un)loading in
> > alsa-utils."
> I don't get this last part.
> 
> My ALSA is built as modules, including the core (I'm guessing that means
> snd.ko, right?).  I don't do anything particular to load them, they're
> not listed in /etc/conf.d/modules.  Yet the mixer save and restore via
> alsasound works.
> 
> Could it be that alsasound itself loads the modules on demand, and the
> warning above is misleading?

Did you run alsactl init to see if the alsa modules are probed and loaded 
without errors?
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Regards,
Mick