[gentoo-user] Gnome audio (mixer) question

[walt]

I'm not sure when this problem started because I seldom need to use
the gnome gui interface to alsamixer (i.e. mixer_applet2).

I've added the gnome "volume-control" applet to my gnome panel for
years, but sometime in the recent past the "mixer" function has
vanished.

When I right-click on the volume-control applet and then on Open
Volume Control, I get the "Sound Preferences" dialog; the same one
I get when I click on the System::Preferences::Sound menu item on
the gnome panel.

In that Sound Preferences dialog I see only the volume control known
as "Master" on alsamixer, even though alsamixer shows several of the
other usual suspects like PCM, CD, Video, etc.

Have any of you gnomes out there got the latest Volume Control applet
to display all of the various controls provided by your sound card?

Thanks!

P.S. If you haven't updated world lately you may not have the latest
gnome-2.26 (stable) updates yet.