diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
index c7e9e90a67..a92413afd5 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
@@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ kld snd_ich (1p/2r/0v channels duplex default)</screen>
 
     <title>Setting Default Values for Mixer Channels</title>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>This is only supported in &os; 5.3-RELEASE and later.</para>
+    </note>
+
     <para>The default values for the different mixer channels are
       hardcoded in the sourcecode of the &man.pcm.4; driver.  There are
       a lot of different applications and daemons that allow
@@ -477,11 +481,7 @@ kld snd_ich (1p/2r/0v channels duplex default)</screen>
 <programlisting>hint.pcm.0.vol="100"</programlisting>
 
     <para>This will set the volume channel to a default value of
-      100, as soon as the &man.pcm.4; module gets loaded.</para>
-
-    <note>
-      <para>This is only supported in &os; 5.3-RELEASE and later.</para>
-    </note>
+      100, when the &man.pcm.4; module is loaded.</para>
   </sect2>
 </sect1>