Gnome volume control applet supports OSS mixer only?

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:49:07 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> I normally don't use the Gnome mixer applet, but I tried adding it to
> the panel today to find that it now only supports the "OSS Mixer", and I
> only get a playback tab, no capture.  This is not very useful and seems
> to be a regression.
> 
> This used to work.  Is it a known bug?  I have verified that the ALSA
> mixer interface is working by running alsamixer.

Have a look under Edit-Preferences and File- Change Device in the dialogue
that pops up when you double-click the panel applet icon.

You can tick a whole bunch of extra options...

Peter