Macbook Pro 13.3" (5,5) Fedora 12 notes

[Jon Masters]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 13:58 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 13:35 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> > > > Then alsamixer will show all of the channel options, which you should
> > > > set to 100% volume for now.
> > > 
> > > alsamixer -c 0
> > > would have done the same thing.
> > 
> > It would? Doesn't the ALSA plugin always end up hiding things PA doesn't
> > think you need? 
> 
> No. PA doesn't 'hide' anything from the ALSA interfaces (and hence
> tools). It's just that, with alsa-plugins-pulseaudio installed, the
> default ALSA device is not your physical sound card

Oh fine, I guess I had it in my head that it also changed what you'd see
in alsamixer. Traditionally, I've often had to remove pulseaudio to get
skip free playback (I know this is not necessarily PAs fault) so I don't
have a lot of experience as a PA user aside from the last few months :)

Jon.