how to handle now sound control needs?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 15:39 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:12:46AM +0100, drago01 wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > >
> > > Now maybe that page is incorrect, so I'll ask: What options are there for
> > > people who want to tweak their hardware mixer settings from GNOME for
> > > whatever reason?
> > 
> > you shouldn't have to.
> > Pulseaudio abstract the "tons of different mixers provided by alsa" to
> > something clear to the user.
> 
> I believe when I will see it.  So far when I encounter a statement
> of that sort I invariably end up screwed in some moment.  After a
> while those thing mostly work but an operative word here is
> "mostly".  An outside world is a messy place.
> 
> Also nobody bothered to mention how somebody "command line averse"
> is supposed to get to whatever was left of those controls. If I
> missed something on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControl
> then I do not know where.  If the current state is just "rawhide
> temporary" then at least this question would be answered.

The sound capplet will be in the menus again soon, just a missing
desktop file. For now, you can get it from the context menu of the
volume icon.