Alsa Muting

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:10:46 -0500, Eric Wood wrote:
> 
> > Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > It's a userspace issue anyway, and stock ALSA solve this with a
> > > multi-purpose "alsasound" initscript. See e.g. alsa-driver package for
> > > FC1 at fedora.us.
> > 
> > initscript?  Not really a place to restore sound settings per unique X
> > login.
> 
> Umm, it's done at system-level to initialize the drivers.  When a user
> logs in, he can restore his own mixer settings with a tool that is run
> automatically. But unless he did that, audio would be mute.

But there's no need to unmute the sound for that reason.  Alan's point about
gdm needing to make beeps covers a case outside of a normal login.

jh

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