The biggest stumbling block for newbies to ALSA is that by default theI have those bruised eardrums. My amp. is only 50W per channel, but W2K, bless it, plays that irritating welcome tune before it sets the saved mixer settings. And it plays it at full volume. Boy did it hurt. The only way to fix it is to turn off the login sound.
sound channels are muted. While this is indeed an issue for
first-timers, there are good reasons for ALSA to do that (anyone who
turned on sound support, only to jump off the chair because of some 100W
speakers suddenly blaring full-throttle will understand what i'm
saying).
Alsa's approach of muting everything by default is exactly the right thing to do. Basically it ensures you only un-mute the channels you need and generally gives better sound. Especially on this laptop where "phone" seems to be a good source of white noise ...
jch
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