Comment 7 for bug 613809

I'm affected from this bug as well,

But since ubuntu uses the new volume control almost al audio went tremendiously down.

Almost ALL multimedia applications are affected.
Since 9.10 ubuntu :
Does NOT DETECT ANYMORE THE Correct codes for HDA INTEL AUDIO. Only a pure very poor unsatisfactory basic settings wich often even not work at all when Motherboards are using all of many possible channels from chipsets. Example realteck 889A into asus or gigabyte Mb not supported. A work around possible is with sound options finding the correct settings for your audio card config and put them into alsa-base.conf located into /etc/modprobe.d the rule = options snd-hda-intel model= xxx where xxx is your card. But most codecs are not present. At the end you can find a setting wich is te best for you but it take a couple af days. Testing. On top of it the basic volume control does not recognize this settings and only and only use the basic unusable and unsatisfactory settings and there is no way or work around possible. With alsa mixer you can let it work at the end, But a lot off conflicts are happening.

I was hoping that Maverick would again improve and correct such stuff but still it's just the opposed, now almost NOTHING works anymore. Even the real needed oss simulations are all away.

IF multimedia is realy important like by me ubuntu is only good up to 9.04 as from 9.10 it's a pain in the ash . And things get worser the higher ubuntu version is.

All good programs like for example tvtime do not work anymore. Unless your apply many many patches and work arounds.

But as long ubuntu DOES NOT ADAPT THE BASIC VOLUME CONTROL to recognize and use the correct codecs OR AT LEAST MAKE A WAY TO force a certain codecs use it wil NEVER WORK GOOD.

So ubuntu without the need of good audio is very good. But if you need audio ubuntu just SUCKS . None off the bugs concerning audio are treated and if there is a change it just is worse.