In Karmic Beta the only reasonable way to control audio without pulseaudio - is with text-based alsamixer.
It is a disaster! There is no sound applet with mixer alsamixergui is outdated gamix has a buggy gui geometry issues and meter drawing inconsistencies gnome-alsamixer does not recognize some switches correctly sound hotkeys do not work Without pulseaudio sound control is broken. -- future gnome-volume-control has many use case regressions with move to Pulse Audio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
