FC2 First Impressions (Nautilus, Sound and Evolution)

[Bryan W. Headley]

Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>What you could do in the meantime is merely build an asound file without 
>>muting and let that be the default when the sound card's been discovered.
> 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114720

Huh? Is the reason why the drivers did not "work" is because ALSA 
defaults to driver-mute? B/s the bzilla reads like you're trying to load 
2.4.x drivers onto 2.6, which makes little sense...

What I think might make sense is,

1. if kudzu sees a new sound card, have it also create a default 
/etc/asound.state file where the output channel isn't muted.
2. If you run system-config-sound, have it's panel come up with a 
control to set the volume/mute flag.
3. Because I have a IBM Thinkpad, soundcards are not found. I'd like to 
pass a command-line parameter to tell it which IRQ to use. That'd be a 
Release Notes kind of thing.
4. I don't see alsactl installed, either. Yeah, it's ugly curses stuff, 
but you need something to set asound.state with...

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