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

[Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Werner Almesberger wrote:

> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > We have emulation layer for non-ALSA mixers. This layer turns mute off 
> > automagically when volume is greater than zero.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying this ! So, would you agree with the following
> addition to Documentation/Changes ?
> 
>   ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is now the preferred
>   architecture for sound support, instead of the older OSS (Open
>   Sound System). Note that, in ALSA, all volume settings default
>   to zero, and all channels default to being "muted".
> 
>   User space therefore needs to explicitly increase the volume,
>   and "unmute" the respective audio channels before any sound
>   can be heard. 
> 
>   Mixers not explicitly supporting the "mute" functionality will
    ^^^^^^

I would change this to 'OSS mixers' because all ALSA mixers handle the 
mute feature.

>   usually "unmute" sources when setting the volume to a value
>   above zero.
> 
>   More information about ALSA, including configuration and OSS
>   compatibility, can be found in Documentation/sound/alsa/

It sounds good.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs