Just thought I'd document this, it had me baffled for a while... I got a new soundcard (audigy 2 zs platinum) to replace my onboard sound, recompiled my kernel with support for it, and then had to go through the process of reconfiguring alsa for the new soundcard. However, every time I rebooted it seemed to go back to the old config. I figured out eventually that at some point early on in the piece I ran alsaconf which backed up the alsa file in /etc/modules.d to alsa.old in the same directory. The problem was that when modules-update was run, it would also read the alsa.old file and put both configurations into modules.conf. I think that because somewhere I had the soundcard limit set to 1, the second soundcard in the list (onboard) replaced the first soundcard. Then I would have no sound, because the onboard sound was disabled in the bios.
Anyway, that might help someone somewhere down the track :) Luuk
