[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #896: Ignore lowest mixer level, via settings

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#896: Ignore lowest mixer level, via settings
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  Reporter:  danutz       |       Owner:  lennart      
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened     
 Milestone:               |   Component:  module-alsa-*
Resolution:               |    Keywords:               
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Comment(by tanuk):

 Replying to [comment:8 danutz]:
 > When someone writes "This is an alsa bug, perhaps in the kernel and
 perhaps in lib alsa", when should I expect a possible fix to arrive in my
 distro (i.e. in my apt-get upgrade)?

 Unless someone has promised to fix the issue, I'd expect it to be never
 fixed.

 > When someone writes "I recently helped fixed this exact same issue for
 my HDA card", how localized (code-line-wise) do you expect the issue to
 be?

 I expect it to be very localized. I don't know if it is, though - I don't
 know how quirks are implemented in alsa drivers. I'm not sure I understood
 your question exactly right, though - I don't quite see how localization
 is related to the quote.

 > And, finally, when a dialogue like the one between Raymond and yalo
 takes place (sorry, it's impossible to find the link anymore, somehow both
 Alsa and Pulse's bug tracking systems seem to hide from Google -- I've
 spent 50 minutes trying to find the thing) who else do you expect to join
 the discussion?

 From what I've heard, the alsa developers are not following their bug
 tracker very closely, which is unfortunate (I know Raymond follows it, but
 he sure isn't the hda maintainer, and I don't know if he's an alsa
 developer at all). It may be best to send mail to the alsa-devel list, or
 to contact your distribution's audio maintainers. In this case it would be
 useful to get an opinion from some distribution(s) anyway about this
 workaround - if they really would want this kind of a hack in alsa or
 pulseaudio, that might increase the motivation of the developers to work
 on this.

 Submitting patches is the most effective way of getting issues fixed - I
 think the pulseaudio maintainers would accept a patch that would implement
 what you propose (I'm not 100% sure, though).

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