--- /etc/init.d/alsasound.orig	2009-04-22 12:15:54.000000000 +1000
+++ /etc/init.d/alsasound	2009-04-22 12:15:59.000000000 +1000
@@ -105,14 +105,19 @@
 }
 
 unload_modules_26() {
-	# First of all, remove the snd module and all the modules depending
-	# on it, this should remove already most of ALSA modules.
-	lsmod | grep -q "^snd[[:space:]]" && unload_modules_recursive snd
-
-	# Then find the remaining ones, and handle them too.
-	for module in $(lsmod | sed -n -e 's/^\(snd[^ ]*\) .*/\1/p'); do
-		unload_modules_recursive "${module}"
+	# First of all, remove all snd* modules that have 0 
+	# references currently
+	ZERO_REF_MODS=`lsmod | sed -n -e 's/^\(snd[^ ]*\)[[:space:]]*\([0-9]*\)[[:space:]]*\([0-9]*\).*$/\3 \1/p' | grep "^0" | sed -n -e 's/^\([0-9]*\) \(.*\)/\2/p'`
+	while [ "a${ZERO_REF_MODS}" != "a" ] 
+	do
+		for i in ${ZERO_REF_MODS} ; do
+			rmmod --wait $i
+		done
+		# Check which modules have 0 references now
+		ZERO_REF_MODS=`lsmod | sed -n -e 's/^\(snd[^ ]*\)[[:space:]]*\([0-9]*\)[[:space:]]*\([0-9]*\).*$/\3 \1/p' | grep "^0" | sed -n -e 's/^\([0-9]*\) \(.*\)/\2/p'`
 	done
+	# as there are no modules left that have 0 references, we have removed
+	# all modules that could possibly be removed.
 
 	lsmod | grep -vq "^snd"
 }