For alsa-lib the items I can overtly disable are: resmgr support resmgr (optional) aload reading /dev/aload* mixer mixer component pcm PCM component rawmidi raw MIDI component hwdep hwdep component seq sequencer component instr instrument component For alsa-utilities, I find these directories that appear to contain utility programs: drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 alsaconf drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 alsactl drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 alsamixer drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 amidi drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:31 amixer drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:31 aplay drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:31 iecset drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 include drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 m4 *** not sure what this is???? drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 po *** not sure what this is???? drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:30 seq drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:31 speaker-test For alsa-sriver, the following modules were generated: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176864 Sep 22 09:47 snd-ainstr-fm.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280414 Sep 22 09:47 snd-cmipci.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 190018 Sep 22 09:47 snd-hwdep.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180495 Sep 22 09:47 snd-mpu401-uart.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 453191 Sep 22 09:47 snd.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209809 Sep 22 09:47 snd-opl3-lib.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214174 Sep 22 09:47 snd-opl3-synth.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249866 Sep 22 09:47 snd-page-alloc.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 441313 Sep 22 09:47 snd-pcm.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231737 Sep 22 09:47 snd-rawmidi.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195855 Sep 22 09:47 snd-seq-device.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192275 Sep 22 09:47 snd-seq-instr.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185841 Sep 22 09:47 snd-seq-midi-emul.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181295 Sep 22 09:47 snd-seq-midi-event.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186550 Sep 22 09:47 snd-seq-midi.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 391542 Sep 22 09:47 snd-seq.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247497 Sep 22 09:47 snd-timer.o