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

[Gene C.]

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.
-- 
Gene