1 Jul
2005
1 Jul
'05
2:19 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:01:28PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
Hi everyone! I was just wondering why alsamixer starts
with all volume
settings in cero. I guess there should be an aswer to this, so I decided
to ask you. What I didn't know was if to ask here or to lau's list, so I
decided to go directly to the designers :-)
It's by design so that people don't get their ears or speakers blown by
default volumes being too high, asfaik.
Also, it is possible to, at least, lstart with the
main volume and
pcm/wav just a little bit raised? I think this would help when
configuring alsa, specially for newbies.
The alsasound init script uses alsactl to store mixer settings when run
with the stop case. On startup it restores those settings. Once you've
installed alsasound in /etc/init.d/ and made the appropriate symlinks in
your runlevel directories this happens automatically.
Of course, it would probably help if this script got installed
automatically. It comes with the alsa-drivers tarball. I'm not sure how
demudi and ccrma deal with it. Ideally users shouldn't have to think
about it.
Thanks in advanced!
Cheers, Damian.-
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