Re: sound init in gnome-settings-daemon

["Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 11:25 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Yes. And there is another problem, that sound volume is initialized by
> mixer applet, which is too late for startup sound.
> 
> It would be nice to initialize volume as soon as possible, not by
> applet.

The applet does not change the volume on startup, and shouldn't do so.
If you want to save/restore mixer settings, use alsactl on module
loading/unloading using modprobe.conf magic.

> People then complain, that startup sound is too loud:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8079
> (no additional related info there)

Then you're not restoring the volume correctly using alsactl.

Ronald