[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Daniel Chen]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> "switch = mute" makes the mixer element state follow pulseaudio's sink
> mute state, and I don't think you meant to do that. Use "switch = off"
> to set the element always off or "switch = on" to set it always on.

FWIW, Ubuntu has carried this workaround for Live and Audigy devices,
but it's only a workaround. It should be fixed in ALSA, and I'll be
pushing a patch to alsa-utils (for the init db) to do this properly.

Thanks!
-Dan