On Jan 28, 2008 12:06 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:14 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
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> Pulseaudio is not a substitute for alsa. It is just another software
> layer on top of Alsa, the
> same way compiz is not a substitute for X.
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That may be but alsamixer no longer works when pulseaudio is installed.
Which was the problem that the OP had.

Why not? I have no problem with it.
Even gnome-alsamixer works just fine, and it is a very old application.

It all depends on the hardware you have. I spent a lot of time to make my onboard
card work the way I wanted:

http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/alsa-1.0.15rc2_snd-hda-intel.html