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udev is needed if you want to dynamically create nodes in /dev when you load modules, so unless you want to make nodes manually it's good idea to have it.
It's udev erasing and then recreating your /dev directory at every boot. This is one of the reasons why I don't like the 2.6 tree. I'm stuborn and didn't feel like learning how to correctly fix the problem. Eventually I moved back to stable but you can insert:
Code:
. /sbin/snddevices
into the very top of /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa
Then download the alsa-driver source code and move the snddevices script into /sbin.
I know, it's an ugly hack, but it works. You might consider it until you can go upstream to the source of the problem, which is UDEV.
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