Comment 4 for bug 592016

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Actually I like it the way pulse is now - hopefully it won't get messed up if this is fixed.

With that line commented out pulse will not change the pcm level on boot if lowered in alsamixer from the inexplicable default of 100.
(there is no reason to use a pcm or any other level of 100 with desktop speaker systems - it produces distorted and clipped sound

Additionally on a 5.1 desktop system it leaves the output device device at surround 5.1

(previously in karmic, lucid, setting pulse not to reset pcm to 100 resulted in the output device being set to stereo, at least here.

So I'm all for just commenting that line out and leaving things be...