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

[Rémy Maucherat]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:28 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at 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.

Rémy