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

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> I'm more concerned with new installs, and the poor user having no idea
>> why his sound card "doesn't work". Been there myself. Pain in the ass.
> 
> Yes, but that's a user space problem too. Nothing prevents your
> distribution to crank up the volume to 100% also on a first-time
> installation.

100% would be stupid too. If the distro can pick a reasonable value,
the kernel can too. Thus the argument "push the problem into userspace"
doesn't do anything for me.
 
> The kernel should pick a value that's safe in all cases. And
> this is zero. Don't forget that there can be several seconds
> between the driver's initialization and the moment when the
> user-space utility gets to change the settings.

So if people want 0 volume for some reason, they can set *that*
in userspace. Windows can manage to do this without cocking it up. 
I don't see why we can't achieve it. 

M.