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

[Ben Steeves]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 17:01, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Chris Kloiber (ckloiber at redhat.com) said: 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > 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,
> 
> It does.

As of when?  I did a fresh install from Rawhide sometime last week and
I'm fairly certain that sound was muted during the sound-test stage in
firstboot.

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