Well, ALSA (linux-source-2.6.19/alsa-driver) is partly to blame due to the mixer controls' enumeration, but that's not a problem easily resolved without touching -all- drivers.
Guillaume and Nicolas, please attach your respective ``lspci -nv && cat /proc/asound/card0/codec*''. (As an aside, pulseaudio should alleviate this somewhat, hopefully...) -- volume applet don't work on my laptop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75165 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs