[pulseaudio-discuss] Configuring alsa mixers in the "off" profile.

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:54:40PM +0300, Matti J. Aaltonen wrote:

> There could be a function in the board file that the driver could
> poll to see if you need to turn the radio on. But if you have on

Polling is unacceptable, we can't be sitting burning power on the off
chance that something starts using the FM radio.

> multipurpose analog amplifier
> with inputs simply soldered together you still have a difficult
> situation. But if you have an easy solution to this that if of
> course great.

That doesn't sound like something that's electrically sane - you'd need
to at least have a mixer, and I'd be shocked to see a mixer without any
software control.