Sound check on first boot ...will never work if ALSA is muted!

[Andy Ross]

Jerone Young wrote:
> The problem here is that we are now using ALSA and everything is
> muted by default. [...] Things like this drive Mr. Average user or
> even new comers to Linux crazy.

Agreed.  This misfeature has been in ALSA for years.  Now that it's
the default sound system in the mainline kernel, there's simply no
excuse for it anymore.  Surely it's not too much to ask that software,
by default, work correctly?

Andy