Alsa Muting

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On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:51, fedora-test-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> Message: 16
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:20:42 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: ALSA Muting (was Re: fedora-test-list digest, Vol 1 #546 - 33
msgs)
> From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net>
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Reply-To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> 
> 
> listmail said:
> > Maybe in order to please this line of logic, it's not so hard to
> > compromise:
> > 1. mute sound for a server only install AND place a warning dialogue
on
> > screen.
> > 2. NOT mute sound for a workstation install.
> 
> According to the install doc at alsa-project.org:
> 
> Note: All mixer channels are muted by default. You must use a native
>       or OSS mixer program to unmute appropriate channels (for example
a
>       mixer from the alsa-utils package).
> 
> Seems to me that upstream defaults to muted, so FC defaulting to muted
> isn't really unexpected.
> 
> Notice the lack of caring on my part one way or the other.  It's not
like
> your going to be reinstalling FC 2 every day or anything.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
> 
Yes I get the lack of caring...

However YOU WOULD if you had to pay for all the unnecessary support
calls
generated by this paricular piece of geek 'uncaringness'.

Chris
listmail at swiftdsl.com.au