Comment 84 for bug 579300

I believe it is way too late to do these kind of configuration changes for Maverick, but if you really want to ask, here's the mailinglist: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kernel-team
(It is probably not too late too ask for 11.04 - that said, I don't think they/we will enable it, but feel free to ask.)

@Mike, Ubuntu ships with such a file by default (or rather one that does that but only if PA is running), so there is no need to add such an /etc/asound.conf.

So, for closed source programs which we don't even ship in Ubuntu, such as Quake, we can't fix them, so it will be up to the closed source program vendor to adapt. At least if you ask me.
All the other programs here (tvtime, gnomeradio, mythtv and and xawtv), correct me if I'm wrong, are somehow related to capture cards, video and/or audio. Could it be the same sort of problem that affects them all?
MythTV has had some kind of ALSA support, even since 2004 (source - quick googling: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/89755 ).

So could you elaborate a little on the actual problem; are you having problem with a) audio input from the TV-card, b) audio output from the application and/or c) controlling the volume? And if it is controlling the volume, can you do that in alsamixer, outside the application? (I'm not saying it's practical, just trying to understand the problem.)