Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:47:10 +0200 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered. |
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:26:38AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> 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) > > > > This is certainly the case. When I was packaging OSS for Xandros, our initial default was 50 percent. We eventualyl made it about 30, because even that was too loud on a laptop we were testing. There was little coherance between the various soundcards. > > > > Waking the neighbors is the smallest problem. Blowing a speaker or makign the user deaf if quite another. > > > > Yes, it's a distro problem. My Gentoo was build "-alsa" and so the alsa-sound init script does not 'go'. A simple rebuild will solve the problem. > > 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 problem is (normaly) a "one time while installing"-problem. So don't see the point. The "helper" that finds out the soundcard, should also do a "find out the default volume to use"-round with the user.
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