[alsa-devel] [RFC] virtual master control for HD-audio

[Lee Revell]

On Dec 22, 2007 2:39 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aren't the patches supposed to be useful also for OSS-only apps, where userspace
> solutions can't work without LD_PRELOAD hacks? Currently, without the patch and
> the "aoss" wrapper, OSS apps sound too loud. I have not tested the patch, but I
> am too lazy to change each .desktop file for each OSS-only application provided
> by the distribution.

Please file a bug report with your distro.  It should be considered a
bug for a modern distro to ship OSS only apps withut using the aoss
wrapper.  It causes all sorts of problems, like blocking the soundcard
for ALSA apps.

Lee