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

[Chris Kloiber]

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 14:24, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:37, Andy Ross wrote:
> > 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
> 
> The rub there is that the people who write ALSA believe this is the
> correct behavior, so in effect ALSA is working correctly by default.
> What we need is a patch to redhat-config-soundcard to unmute sound by
> default, and save it that way. Then you need to convince someone that
> the patch needs applying.

Gack. I meant system-config-soundcard. Sorry. 

I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux mostly right now.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCX
Red Hat, Inc.