Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered.

From: Disconnect <lkml@sigkill.net>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered.
Date: 23 Apr 2003 13:45:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051119922.16492.50.camel@sparky> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1527920000.1051118798@flay>

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 13:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 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 key there is -save- and restore.  The script defaults to "don't
touch" until it has a saved setting to use, which it can get either from
some user-triggered method or from a clean shutdown..

That, AFAIR, is also at least vaguely how that other desktop OS tends to
work - on shutdown save the settings, on boot restore them...

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