On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:56:03AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Actually, I agree with the submitter. Having the volume default to 0
> is stupid - userspace tools are all very well, but no substitute for
> sensible kernel defaults.
AFAIR ALSA always set the setting to zero.
I can only guess why. My buest guess is that not all
sound-configurations are the same, on some systems the "defaults" could
much to loud. (e.g. waking the neigbours when you restart you computer
at night)
I can perfectly understand the ALSA-guys. It's a bit annoying, but
nothing an init-script can't fix. -> Distro problem.
(And i guess the "OSS-gab" was filled by the Distro)
(Personally i use my own "S99misc" init-script which, apart from some other
things, loads the sound-driver and then sets the mixer-levels.)
Bis denn
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