[Bug 45739] Loud startup noise during boot

[michiel]

Public bug reported:

Here's a request rather than a bug:

Yesterday evening, I downloaded the Ubuntu Dapper Flight 7 CD and
decided to try it out. It was pretty late, and everybody else in my
house had already gone to bed. I'm on a laptop with no real way to
change the volume of its speakers, which can be pretty loud at the
highest setting.

When I started the system, I noticed that the startup sound was coming
up. Since the system was just starting, there was of course no way for
me to turn down the volume, and if it hadn't been for me hastily
plugging in earphones into my laptop, I would have woken everybody up
for sure. Even with earplugs connected to my laptop, the sound was
pretty loud and could clearly be heard without wearing them.

My request is that such computers are "protected" a little better from
the first boot by putting the volume level at 50% or even 40% by default
rather than the full 100%. This wouldn't be much of a bother to
computers with speakers that can be turned down, but would probably mean
much to laptop users (or other types of computers with built-in
speakers).

** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Wishlist
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Loud startup noise during boot
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45739