From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: RE: ipw2100: firmware problem Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:07:18 -0400 Message-ID: <1118437639.6423.65.camel@mindpipe> References: <003001c56dff$662fe4b0$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'Netdev list'" , "'kernel list'" Return-path: To: abonilla@linuxwireless.org In-Reply-To: <003001c56dff$662fe4b0$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:00 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > > It thing of Mute in ALSA is stupid. If you want Sound, you > > install the Sound > > > and enable it. Why would it make you google for more things > > to do? ALSA mute > > > on install is WAY way, not OK. > > > > It took you 10 minutes of googling before you thought to try > > the mixer? > > Sorry dude, this is PEBKAC. > > > > Lee > > Riiiight. It could be. Or it could be that no where in the world I have seen > something where the device would be disabled by default without notifying > the user. Why would you Mute the driver? Is the driver that bad, that the > developers would rather Mute the sound card, just in case if the sound cards > starts making noises and shit when the driver is loaded? > Userspace should handle it, doing this in the kernel is bloat. My Debian system initializes the mixer settings to a sane state just fine when the alsasound init script is run. Maybe you need a better distro. Users who compile ALSA from source are expected to know what they are doing. And, if you watch the "make install" output, it prints a big fat warning that all mixer controls are muted by default. > You are moving to another topic. Let's drop it. Agreed, but it was your OT rant that changed the topic... Lee