Comment 87 for bug 579300

David: That's exactly my problem (you can find more people with the same by looking through the bug reports linked to in one of the comments). I think Fedora has a patch for having tvtime use ALSA for volume control, see the link I provided. If you can package that up, I would personally be happy. But I think you're going to get busy. :)

In any case, OSS emulation has to land again at some point. You can't just expect vendors to adapt - many of the things people have trouble with aren't maintained anymore.