Alsa sound devices on Debian

[sweetser at TheWorld.com (Doug Sweetser)]

Hello:

I can play sound on my linux box, but with each reboot, it requires
these steps:

as root:

> /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices

Then kmix or something to push these new devices off of mute.  This
seams silly.  I would like all the devices created by snddevices to
last through a reboot.  What am I missing?  I have installed all kinds
of kde and gnome stuff, and have no idea is one of those packages
somehow feels a need to trash a device.  My file system is reiser.

doug

> uname -a
Linux amd 2.6.8-1-k7 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:47:47 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux