From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>,
Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
pat@suwalski.net
Subject: Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered.
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:34:13 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030423183413.C1425@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1508310000.1051116963@flay>; from mbligh@aracnet.com on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:56:03AM -0700
Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 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.
You've obviously never been to a meeting/conference and booted
a Linux notebook with a kernel that sets things to a non-zero
default :-)
If the default is to turn up also the microphone (and to enable
it in the first place), you might notice that even apparently
weak speakers are perfectly capable of producing a very LOUD
alarm-like sound. And you'll have to sit through this until
your user-mode utility loads and turns the mess off, while
everybody is turning to stare at you.
0 is the only safe default setting.
- Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-23 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 16:23 [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 16:32 ` Marc Giger
2003-04-23 16:45 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-04-23 16:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 17:21 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-04-23 13:26 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-23 17:26 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 17:45 ` Disconnect
2003-04-23 17:47 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-04-23 18:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 17:49 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-23 18:56 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-23 22:17 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-23 22:35 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-23 22:55 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 2:19 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 2:29 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-24 2:34 ` Ben Collins
2003-04-24 7:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-24 13:31 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 4:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-23 23:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 21:34 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-04-23 21:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 22:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-23 22:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 22:55 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 0:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-24 0:43 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 1:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-24 1:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 1:22 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-24 2:11 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 2:40 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 3:37 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 4:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 13:16 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 7:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-24 13:38 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 13:49 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-04-24 14:08 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-24 14:34 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-04-24 15:04 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 15:23 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-04-24 16:01 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 16:26 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-04-24 21:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-25 10:03 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-04-25 10:30 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-24 21:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-24 23:55 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-25 0:05 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-25 10:41 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-25 10:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-25 17:44 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-25 17:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-26 0:31 ` Pat Suwalski
2003-04-24 22:51 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 0:31 Ian Kumlien
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