Some questions that do 3d6 fire damage

Posted Aug 26, 2010 12:16 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Some questions that do 3d6 fire damage by paulj
Parent article: Systemd and Fedora 14

Flat volumes? That can be turned off

echo "flat-volumes = no" >> /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

Relogin. Although this is often a hardware specific bug in ALSA and should be reported.

Posted Aug 26, 2010 21:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

There are HDA codecs that are so broken that they can't set their *volume*?

(Do these things get any testing at all? How does Windows do it, and why can't we use the same technique?)

Posted Aug 26, 2010 21:39 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Posted Aug 26, 2010 21:56 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff536251%28VS.85%29.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff536191%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

It looks like, as with all shoddy Works-Fine-With-Windows hardware, the answer is one or more of:

This is why vendors have to provide drivers for Windows so that stuff "Just Works"--someone worked around the bugs in software for Windows.