Re: The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 19:29 +0200, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:28 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org> wrote:
> > I'm not sure about 'yesterday', but I can certainly speak about 'three
> > days ago'. That's when my father's new laptop arrived.
> >
> > I'd just installed the flash player and was making sure YouTube worked,
> > when I realised that I can't actually turn the sound up enough to hear
> > it over the radio unless I install and run gnome-alsamixer and turn the
> > 'Front' slider up...
> >
> > My MacBook Pro has the same issue, but that's _months_ old now so
> > presumably it's more acceptable that it doesn't work right without
> > gnome-alsamixer?
> 
> Great, so you personally experience one bug, and since you happen to
> be on a technical board, you use that privilege to impose your own
> little solution to your personal problems. Neat case of blatant power
> abuse.

I'm not sure what world you come from, in which the elected members of
FESCo always do my bidding like good little minions... but when you go
back there, can I go with you?

If that had been the case and you weren't entirely full of nonsense,
they'd have supported my proposal to revert the VolumeControl 'feature'
from F-11 entirely.

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