diff --git a/extras/hotplug/sound.agent b/extras/hotplug/sound.agent
index 70374f5..2f513a8 100755
--- a/extras/hotplug/sound.agent
+++ b/extras/hotplug/sound.agent
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ ALSACTL=/usr/sbin/alsactl
 
 # Fail if needed files and directories are not available,
 # so that the event can be retried later.
-[ -d "$STATEPATH" ] && [ -x "$AMIXER" ] && [ -x "$ALSACTL" ] || exit 1
+## NB: split the check into relevant parts, we don't really
+## need anything else than amixer and set_mixer_default()
+## in LTSP chroot -- mike@altlinux.org 20071214
+#[ -d "$STATEPATH" ] && [ -x "$AMIXER" ] && [ -x "$ALSACTL" ] || exit 1
 
 mixer()
 {
@@ -28,6 +31,7 @@ mixer()
 
 set_mixer_default()
 {
+	[ -x "$AMIXER" ] || exit 1
 	mesg "Set default mixer values for $DEVPATH ($CARDN)"
 	mixer Master 75%
 	mixer PCM 90%
@@ -56,6 +60,7 @@ set_mixer_default()
 
 restore_mixer()
 {
+	[ -d "$STATEPATH" ] && [ -x "$ALSACTL" ] || exit 1
 	mesg "Restore mixer values for $DEVPATH ($CARDN)"
 	ret=`$ALSACTL -F -f "$STATEPATH/asound$CARDN.state" restore $CARDN 2>&1`
 	[ "$ret" = "" ] || return 1
@@ -63,6 +68,7 @@ restore_mixer()
 
 save_mixer()
 {
+	[ -d "$STATEPATH" ] && [ -x "$ALSACTL" ] || exit 1
 	rm -f "$STATEPATH/asound$CARDN.state"
 	$ALSACTL -f "$STATEPATH/asound$CARDN.state" store $CARDN
 	ret=$?
diff --git a/udev.spec b/udev.spec
index 5a28dd8..cd73248 100644
--- a/udev.spec
+++ b/udev.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 Name: udev
 Version: 108
-Release: alt2
+Release: alt2.1
 
 Summary: udev - an userspace implementation of devfs
 Summary(ru_RU.UTF-8): udev - это вынесенная из ядра реализация devfs
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Source0: %name-%version.tar
 
 Patch0: %name-%version-%release.patch
 
+Packager: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
+
 PreReq: shadow-utils
 PreReq: module-init-tools >= 3.3
 PreReq: dmsetup
@@ -292,6 +294,13 @@ fi
 /lib/mkinitrd/udev
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Dec 14 2007 Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.org> 108-alt2.1
+- NMU: fixed premature safety checks in sound.agent
+  (it's perfectly good to only have amixer in LTSP chroot,
+  there's no possibility to save/restore mixer state on diskless
+  systems anyways)
+- added Packager:
+
 * Wed Nov 28 2007 Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> 108-alt2
 - Applied post-108 upstream changes (0809c264e9878cdd1c61d9fb0e077972bc596ef8):
   + make ACTION!="add|change" working (now "!=" is really the inverse of "==")