Actually this is not an "alsa thing". Alsa is perfoming to spec .
Primarily it is a gdm thing. It is gdm that is sending audio data to alsa and doing so before the volume has been set. That is the bug. On a live CD it will *always* be too loud and means, even with a lower volume more suitable for "most" hardware, it remains impossible to start the system silently. That should always be possible. Playing these silly noises just because you can is so futile I see no argument, turn it off. And while we have the box open, please can that welcome jingle as well. When M$ started this particular bandwagon, playing a sound was something new and it was showing off the capability. Now this no longer impresses anyone and is more of an annoyance that anything else. By all means leave a default jingle so that the user can turn this sort of feature on if he likes that sort of thing. But off by default , please. -- X login screen volume always set to max; crazy loud https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378325 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
