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

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Pat Suwalski <pat@suwalski.net>
Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered.
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:17:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030423221749.GA9187@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EA6947D.9080106@suwalski.net>

Hi!

> >I can only guess why. My buest guess is that not all
> >sound-configurations are the same, on some systems the "defaults" could
> >much to loud. (e.g. waking the neigbours when you restart you computer
> >at night)
> 
> This is certainly the case. When I was packaging OSS for Xandros, our 
> initial default was 50 percent. We eventualyl made it about 30, because 
> even that was too loud on a laptop we were testing. There was little 
> coherance between the various soundcards.
> 
> Waking the neighbors is the smallest problem. Blowing a speaker or 
> makign the user deaf if quite another.

Hardware that lets software kill it deserves so, and I believe you
can't make user deaf *that* easily.

I expect kernel to just work, and not need 1001 tools to set it
up. cat /bin/bash > /dev/dsp should produce some noise...
								Pavel
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