[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 04/01/10 15:04 did gyre and gimble:
> 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.

/me has a look to copying that for Gene....

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