Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered.

[Jamie Lokier]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
> ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is now the preferred
> architecture for sound support, instead of the older OSS (Open
> Sound System). Note that all volume settings default to zero
> in ALSA, so user space needs to explicitly increase the volume
> before any sound can be heard.

I'm not sure whether that's actually correct, but as long as there's a
mixture of ALSA and non-ALSA drivers in 2.6, they really ought to
have the same behaviour in this regard.

I.e. if silence is the load-time setting, the OSS drivers and other
non-ALSA sound drivers should be changed to do that as well.

-- Jamie