On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:26:37PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
On 08/07/2012 01:15 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
Isn't this a fairly simple Pulse/distro issue?
PulseAudio - no, because PulseAudio does not control *all* volumes. They're partially overlapping, but not completely.
Oh, that's very surprising - my understanding had been that PulseAudio was essentially just ignoring the configuration it got on startup. Is there any great reason not to subsume the functionality currently done using alsactl?
Distro - well, a distro can do anything they/we want, but recommendations from upstream will reduce confusion and risk for distros being bonked by upstream with the "you're doing it wrong, stupid!" message.
What I was suggetsing was that this become our advice for the distros.
For that I guess if Pulse does something the distros would be happy to just follow that?
Not all distros use PulseAudio either, but maybe that's beyond the scope of the actual discussion.
I think so, if they're replacing all the software managing the configuration they ought to be comfortable doing their own replacement.