Comment 4 for bug 440465

Found a workaround. For anyone listening. (and this is assuming you already purged pulseaudio)

# sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss gnome-alsamixer

Now you need asoundconf;

# wget http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~crimsun/asoundconf-ui/asoundconf-trunk/download/head%3A/asoundconf-20070710013131-u0ilplzisbkiiyt2-1/asoundconf

# sudo chown root:root asoundconf

# sudo chmod 755 asoundconf

# sudo mv asoundconf /usr/bin/

# asoundconf list

Names of available sound cards:
YOUR CARD1
YOUR CARD2

# asoundconf set-default-card YOUR CARD1

Now you will need to tweak your volume settings from Applications> sound and video> GNOME ALSA Mixer

All that is left is I need to figure out how to get the mixer into the dock. If anyone knows how to do this please update this bug report.

ALSA Lives on!!!!!!!