> Slamming outputs.master=255 would be way worse than the current > situation. There are sounds, like the beep made when suspending and > resuming, that do not go through sndiod. Maxing out the hardware volume > is not a viable option.
suspend/resume and text console beeps usually run through pcppi(4), which volume is not necessarily controlled by the audio device (especially on systems without onboard audio devices). There is no easy way to have the volume settings shown by mixerctl apply to this. And, to the best of my knowledge, the kernel has no way to know whether the pcppi wave generator goes through the audio device, or directly reaches the speaker.
