alsa-utils startup service disabled - fesity

[Carthik Sharma]

On 4/1/07, Daniel T. Chen <crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 01:03 -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> > I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn today, and I find that the alsa-utils
> > startup service is de-selected(disabled). I found this out by going to
> > the System->Administration->Services item from the main menu.
>
> This is intentional. alsa-utils's start target is invoked from a udev
> rule. There's no reason to invoke it explicitly in rcS.d or rc2.d.


Ah, so even if it is not in the startup services list, it does get invoked
if required, using udev. That makes sense.

> Isn't alsa-utils essential for sound to work?
>
> It depends what you mean by essential - it certainly facilitates common
> practices such as setting volumes and (un)muting mixer elements, but
> it's only one particular interface. alsa-lib is far more "essential".
>
> So no, it's not essential from my perspective.


Thank you for the clarification.

> Isn't it the thingy that saves volume levels across reboots?
>
> ...which is a completely problematic and non-fool-proof approach. On my
> (ubuntu-audio's, rather) slate for Feisty+1.


Good to know this :)

> Should I enable this service?
>
> See above.


I got it! No changes made to my system.

> Is it a bug if this is not enabled by default on a new install (like
> > mine)?
>
> No, it's intentional.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel Chen


Thank you, Daniel. You rock!
Carthik.

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