Release8 reportinstallation

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:53:09PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> 
> >This already was discussed to death. Because there are people who
> >don't hear anything below 50% of the mixer and there are other people
> >which would be accused for breaking windows and eardrums if they set
> >their mixer to 30% (whatever they connected their computers to...), it
> >was decided to leave this at 0.
> > 
> >
> No it wasn't :-)
> 
> We need to set something like 50-70% for:
> 
>  - PCM
>  - Synth
>  - Master
> 
> I believe that for Hoary we might want to have a database (!) of 
> soundcards (along with video cards, monitors, chipsets....) and in that 
> we could store sane defaults for all known cards.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is trivial enough to get it right for the
preview release.  A scriptlet like this works for me:

for control in "PCM" "Synth" "Master"; do
    amixer -q set "$control" "$volume_level%" unmute
done

but my understanding is that the control names vary from one sound card to
the next, as well as which ones need to be set in order to get sound, and I
don't know whether this does the right thing for multiple sound cards.

-- 
 - mdz