Sound check on first boot ...will never work if ALSA is muted!

[Bill Nottingham]

Chris Kloiber (ckloiber at redhat.com) said: 
> > Agreed.  This misfeature has been in ALSA for years.  Now that it's
> > the default sound system in the mainline kernel, there's simply no
> > excuse for it anymore.  Surely it's not too much to ask that software,
> > by default, work correctly?
> 
> The rub there is that the people who write ALSA believe this is the
> correct behavior, so in effect ALSA is working correctly by default.
> What we need is a patch to redhat-config-soundcard to unmute sound by
> default,

It does.

> and save it that way.

Would have to check on that.

Bill