I probably overlooked something obvious, but since I upgraded to TC 7.0 I keep having to unmute alsa when I reboot. I did the recommended steps of unmuting in alsamixer, sudo alsactl store, and adding usr/local/etc/alsa/asound.state to the backup, but when I reboot the volume/mute settings are back to default. Alsa works fine once I unmute. Should note I also have alsa-config and audacious loaded, so don't know if that's somehow a factor. This all worked in 6.x though.
I also tried adding /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start to bootlocal.sh, but that froze my mouse and keyboard! Weird.
Thane