The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 26.04.09 12:41, Callum Lerwick (seg at haxxed.com) wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 19:29 +0200, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:28 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure about 'yesterday', but I can certainly speak about 'three
> > > days ago'. That's when my father's new laptop arrived.
> > >
> > > I'd just installed the flash player and was making sure YouTube worked,
> > > when I realised that I can't actually turn the sound up enough to hear
> > > it over the radio unless I install and run gnome-alsamixer and turn the
> > > 'Front' slider up...
> > >
> > > My MacBook Pro has the same issue, but that's _months_ old now so
> > > presumably it's more acceptable that it doesn't work right without
> > > gnome-alsamixer?
> > 
> > Great, so you personally experience one bug, and since you happen to
> > be on a technical board, you use that privilege to impose your own
> > little solution to your personal problems. Neat case of blatant power
> > abuse.
> 
> How do *you* propose to get things done?
> 
> Clearly, dwmw2 is the only person in the entire world who owns a MacBook
> Pro.

A great idea would be to add an entry to the alsa db for the macbook!

And whoops the problem is fixed for all macbooks.

See, it's *that* easy.

Lennart

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