Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:18:50 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered. |
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>> I'm more concerned with new installs, and the poor user having no idea >> why his sound card "doesn't work". Been there myself. Pain in the ass. > > Yes, but that's a user space problem too. Nothing prevents your > distribution to crank up the volume to 100% also on a first-time > installation.
100% would be stupid too. If the distro can pick a reasonable value, the kernel can too. Thus the argument "push the problem into userspace" doesn't do anything for me.
> The kernel should pick a value that's safe in all cases. And > this is zero. Don't forget that there can be several seconds > between the driver's initialization and the moment when the > user-space utility gets to change the settings.
So if people want 0 volume for some reason, they can set *that* in userspace. Windows can manage to do this without cocking it up. I don't see why we can't achieve it.
M.
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