Hi, The default volumes have been carefully tuned to work OK in practically all systems. Unfortunately there are some poorly designed motherboards that pick noise from some unused input(s).
Defaulting to all muted doesn't work. Typical users don't realize that the mixer levels should be changed. Instead they think that OSS is broken because there is no sound. Best regards, Hannu ------ Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello > > after installing oss4 I immediately noticed noise almost like > listening to /dev/urandom. > > This is because all the mixer controls are all set to the maximum values. > > I do not think this is a desirable default. > > Sending random noise or played back sound through audio equipment at > maximum volume settings is annoying or worse. > > It requires more work on the user's part to get from this state to > usable state because under normal use it looks like 2-5 mixers need to > be on (but usually not maxed out) several are irrelevant and ~10 have > to be muted on a typical ac97 codec. > > This default causes loud noise for a few seconds between the time the > driver is loaded and the settings are restored. > > Thanks > > Michal > _______________________________________________ > oss-devel mailing list > oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com > http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel > _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
