From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264169AbTDWRhi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:37:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264173AbTDWRhh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:37:37 -0400 Received: from dci.doncaster.on.ca ([66.11.168.194]:62666 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264169AbTDWRhA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:37:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA6D210.3060403@suwalski.net> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:49:04 -0400 From: Pat Suwalski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030331 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer , Marc Giger , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered. References: <21660000.1051114998@[10.10.2.4]> <20030423164558.GA12202@citd.de> <1508310000.1051116963@flay> <20030423172120.GA12497@citd.de> <3EA6947D.9080106@suwalski.net> <1527920000.1051118798@flay> In-Reply-To: <1527920000.1051118798@flay> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin J. Bligh wrote: > But I fail to understand how the distro can magically set a sensible > default, and yet we're unable to do so inside the kernel ? Setting it > to something like 10 (or other very quiet setting) would seem reasonable. > Then at least the poor user would have a clue what the problem was. It does not. The entire point of the original problem was that the settings were not saved. It is not important that the initial is zero. It is important that when I shutdown and then come back, the sound settings are as I left them. And this is a distribution issue. More specifically, my problem; my alsa-utils package. --Pat