FC3 installation report

[Jude DaShiell]

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.