From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264507AbTDXV0D (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:26:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264483AbTDXVYp (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:24:45 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:22920 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264477AbTDXVYg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:24:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:36:32 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Werner Almesberger Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Matthias Schniedermeyer , Marc Giger , linux-kernel , pat@suwalski.net Subject: Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered. Message-ID: <20030424213632.GK30082@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030423191427.D3557@almesberger.net> <1570840000.1051136330@flay> <20030424001134.GD26806@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030423214332.H3557@almesberger.net> <20030424011137.GA27195@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030423231149.I3557@almesberger.net> <25450000.1051152052@[10.10.2.4]> <20030424003742.J3557@almesberger.net> <20030424071439.GB28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030424103858.M3557@almesberger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030424103858.M3557@almesberger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Werner Almesberger wrote: > ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is now the preferred > architecture for sound support, instead of the older OSS (Open > Sound System). Note that all volume settings default to zero > in ALSA, so user space needs to explicitly increase the volume > before any sound can be heard. I'm not sure whether that's actually correct, but as long as there's a mixture of ALSA and non-ALSA drivers in 2.6, they really ought to have the same behaviour in this regard. I.e. if silence is the load-time setting, the OSS drivers and other non-ALSA sound drivers should be changed to do that as well. -- Jamie