alsa-utils startup service disabled - fesity

[Daniel T. Chen]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 01:03 -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn today, and I find that the alsa-utils
> startup service is de-selected(disabled). I found this out by going to
> the System->Administration->Services item from the main menu. 

This is intentional. alsa-utils's start target is invoked from a udev
rule. There's no reason to invoke it explicitly in rcS.d or rc2.d.

> Isn't alsa-utils essential for sound to work?

It depends what you mean by essential - it certainly facilitates common
practices such as setting volumes and (un)muting mixer elements, but
it's only one particular interface. alsa-lib is far more "essential".

So no, it's not essential from my perspective.

> Isn't it the thingy that saves volume levels across reboots?

...which is a completely problematic and non-fool-proof approach. On my
(ubuntu-audio's, rather) slate for Feisty+1.

> Should I enable this service?

See above.

> Is it a bug if this is not enabled by default on a new install (like
> mine)?

No, it's intentional.

Thanks,
Daniel Chen
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