On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 13:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> I agree it's a disto problem to save and restore.
>
> But I fail to understand how the distro can magically set a sensible
> default, and yet we're unable to do so inside the kernel ? Setting it
> to something like 10 (or other very quiet setting) would seem reasonable.
> Then at least the poor user would have a clue what the problem was.
>
> As to "There was little coherance between the various soundcards", yes
> this probably needs to be a per-soundcard setting for sensible defaults.
> I presume this is what the distros do?
>
> Defaulting to silence seems user-malevolent ...
The key there is -save- and restore. The script defaults to "don't
touch" until it has a saved setting to use, which it can get either from
some user-triggered method or from a clean shutdown..
That, AFAIR, is also at least vaguely how that other desktop OS tends to
work - on shutdown save the settings, on boot restore them...
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