Comment 8 for bug 376024

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Zorael (zorael) wrote :

> Asoundconf has been removed in karmic, in anticipation of the new GNOME volume control + pulse being more useful, allowing users to more easily control which sound card is used.

This sort of screws over any installation that doesn't use pulse or isn't running GNOME. For instance, KDE has its own way of telling xine which device to use, but apps that use the alsa API directly ignore those. I realize getting ahold of the script from an outside source (or an older package) works around the issue, but even with a new GNOME mixer app, I don't see why this environment-independent terminal script had to go.

Please consider Kubuntu and similar flavors that don't run pulse nor GNOME.