Setting sound level on startup

[Chris Kloiber]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 22:36, mike at flyn.org wrote:
> > > I think you are saying that sound level setting should be set for each
> > > user, not just globally in /etc/aumixrc but in ~/.aumixrc. Do you know
> > > exactly how this could/should be done?
>  
> > I'd put it in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession script.  Xsession is run as the 
> > user so a 'aumix-minimal -L' would set the mixer for the particular user 
> > as aumix looks for ~/.aumixrc first.  However it should only be done if 
> > the session is local.  i.e. on the system console and not on an X 
> > terminal accross the building.
> 
> I'd like to see this done elsewhere if possible.  We don't all use X each
> time we want to use our audio hardware.  Perhaps pam_audio (I'm not sure if
> this is a tonge-in-cheek proposal or not)?

alsamixer runs on the command line, but I agree it should not need to be
run to unmute and increase the volume. Sane defaults should be set
(maybe 40%) during firstboot, then let the customer adjust it.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCX
Red Hat, Inc.