Am 28. Mar, 2001 schwäzte Kurt Granroth so:

> Really?  I got an SB Live! card working just fine with the ALSA that
> comes with SuSE 7.1.  I had no sound for a long time.. until I
> realized that I need to use amixer to unmute everything.  IMO, it's
> *very* irritating that ALSA mutes all devices by default.

OSS used to do that too.

Maybe dists should ask if sound should be turned up at install time :).

ciao,

der.hans
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