Gnome volume control applet supports OSS mixer only?

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 06:31 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 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...

Already tried, does not work.  The only device listed under "File ->
Change Device" is "Sigmatel STAC9721,23 (OSS Mixer)".  I used to have a
choice of ALSA Mixer and OSS mixer and ALSA was the default.

Lee