Comment 15 for bug 90261

I am running xubuntu gutsy, and the volume control still fails to appear on the panel.
After installing gutsy on my vostro 1400 laptop, I added the volume control plugin to xfce4-panel.
Then I modified /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-
base, adding the line "options snd_hda_intel model=3stack" in order to
get my speakers working, and rebooted. Upon logging back into xfce, the
volume control has dissapeared plugin has dissapeared. When I run xfce-
panel through the terminal, the output is as follows:

The program 'xfce4-mixer-plugin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
 (Details: serial 201 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
** Message: Volume Control: screen changed: 0

** Message: No valid plug window.

(xfce4-panel:13417): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_socket_get_id: assertion
`GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (socket)' failed

** (xfce4-panel:13417): CRITICAL **: An item was unexpectedly removed:
"Volume Control".

Trying to add the plugin back onto my xfce panel doesn't work either, and neither does dragging the plugin onto the panel. Also, after the mixer crashed, the volume control multimedia buttons on my laptop stopped working.