From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   Earlier I posted a problem with rc.alsa in that I didn't   
   seem to have any alsa devices. To my astonishment I have   
   been struggling the sound configuration for years for   
   nothing.   
      
   Note that any error messages displayed in rc.xxx files   
   in /etc/rc.d will be invisible. I only found out about   
   error messages coming first from rc.pulseaudio, and later   
   rc.alsa. In either case, any error in the corresponding   
   config file will abort the function of the rc.xxx file.   
      
   In my experiments I found that pulseaudio served no   
   useful function to me. It was in the config file   
   for rc.alsa that my most recent problem arose.   
      
   I used what had previously worked as the config   
   file for rc.alsa /etc/asound.conf. It was an   
   error in that config file which gave rise to   
   the failure of rc.alsa.   
      
   It amazed me to find that without any /etc/asound.conf   
   rc.alsa finds a sound configuration that works. I guess   
   you only need the asound.conf file if the default for   
   your system is not what you want.   
      
   On a fresh install of Slack64 14.2 you get a   
   asound.conf file that invokes pulseaudio, but   
   it does not work on my system.   
      
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