Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:56:03 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered. |
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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.
--On Wednesday, April 23, 2003 18:45:58 +0200 Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:23:18AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: >> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623 >> >> Summary: Volume not remembered. >> Kernel Version: 2.5.x >> Status: NEW >> Severity: normal >> Owner: bugme-janitors@lists.osdl.org >> Submitter: pat@suwalski.net >> >> >> Distribution: Gentoo >> Hardware Environment: ALSA, 82801AA AC'97 Audio >> Software Environment: Gnome >> Problem Description: >> Not certain if this is kernel or ALSA specific. In 2.4.x OSS volume levels >> were remembered for the various mixers. Now all of them always default to 0 >> at bootup. I never ran ALSA with the 2.4 series, but it would be nice to >> remember volumes. >> Should I be bugging the alsa-project people instead? >> >> Steps to reproduce: >> Set a volume level, reboot, level has been reset. > > OSS didn't do that "itself". He must have had a (maybe init-)script that > saved the mixer-settings at shutdown (or whenever) and restored the > values at startup. > > Definitly not a kernel issue. (Hint, time for a FAQ on "common" issues > that are not problem of the kernel. And maybe a "RESOLVE because it's a > FAQ"-Status :-) > > e.g. Debian does install an init-script it when you install the > "aumix"-package. > > > > Bis denn > > -- > Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as > bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer > wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, > cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. > >
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