Comment 4 for bug 402954

I found this to be a huge regression in usability. My motherboard has one of those 'odd' soundchips, and every time I reboot I find the PCM muted and the volume zeroed. I get desktop sounds but nothing from any media that I play. Once I upgraded to karmic, I had no way to correct this problem. Had to install alsamixer to fix it. Removing the old volume control from the sound icon was definitely fixing something that wasn't broke.