> >I can only guess why. My buest guess is that not all
> >sound-configurations are the same, on some systems the "defaults" could
> >much to loud. (e.g. waking the neigbours when you restart you computer
> >at night)
>
> This is certainly the case. When I was packaging OSS for Xandros, our
> initial default was 50 percent. We eventualyl made it about 30, because
> even that was too loud on a laptop we were testing. There was little
> coherance between the various soundcards.
>
> Waking the neighbors is the smallest problem. Blowing a speaker or
> makign the user deaf if quite another.
Hardware that lets software kill it deserves so, and I believe you
can't make user deaf *that* easily.
I expect kernel to just work, and not need 1001 tools to set it
up. cat /bin/bash > /dev/dsp should produce some noise...
Pavel
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