On 13-04-08 00:09, Rene Herman wrote: > On 12-04-08 23:55, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >> Most consumer distos do not agree with me and want the volume turned >> up already by default. The problem is deciding on a generally good >> level for >> these distros. > > I believe it can be concluded that there is no "generally good level". > ALSA should ship /usr/share/alsa/cards/<card>.state files which at least > lets a driver author decide on a sensible set of default mixer settings. With a bit of alsa-lib help, distros can then call "amixer defaults" to get a card-specific set of defaults loaded. Would that be good thing? Was looking, but I see the mixer API documentation is totally absent... Rene. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel