Re: Alsa-Base breaks Linux-Sound-Base

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:06:30PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:50:02 +0200
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I experienced no issues with the dist-upgrade.
> 
> In my troubles with that I'm sure they installed alsa-base with everything muted.

I think I remember reading somewhere that the reason why everything was
muted was so that there were no unpleasant surprises, i.e. you had to
actually explicitly unmute it and therefore set the volume control to
your own choosing. 

Consider the situation where everything was not muted, then what volume
setting would be appropriate? Too high -- ears blasted, bugreports! Too
low -- hard to hear, bugreports!

Therefore, the best option, to leave it muted, was taken in my view.

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