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

[Gene C.]

On Sunday 11 April 2004 17:31, Gene C. wrote:
> On Sunday 11 April 2004 02:27, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Either I (or someone else) has put in a bugzilla report requesting that the
> volume be adjustable at least during firstboot if not part of s-c-s..
>
> The only report I could find that was on target was reported by ... Chris
> Kloiber: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71221
>
> This is so old and closed anyway  and so much has changed since this was
> reported that a new report should be submitted.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120602
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Gene