Comment 18 for bug 34947

I have a similar problem in Gutsy (not in Feisty) to Kevin. When I adjust the volume with the keyboard the volume adjustment is erratic (it might go up or down, turn off the left channel, etc). Sometime adjusting the volume with the applet is better but if I'm using Totem while adjusting it does weird things. I have an external usb sound card (Trends Audio UD-10) and I did some changes to get it to be recognized (I disabled my onboard sound card in the BIOS so the usb card is the first one).:

diff --git a/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base b/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
index d8a6469..5e1beb8 100644
--- a/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
+++ b/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
@@ -32,7 +32,12 @@ options saa7134-alsa index=-2
 options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
 options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
 options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
-options snd-usb-audio index=-2
+#############
+# Changed by Me:
+# Set usb-audio at index 0
+# options snd-usb-audio index=-2
+options snd-usb-audio index=0
+###############
 options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
 options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
 # Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
diff --git a/etc/modprobe.d/sound b/etc/modprobe.d/sound
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7cc527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/modprobe.d/sound
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
+alias sound-slot-0 snd-usb-audio

This is the same change I did in Feisty and everything worked. Any pointers/help would be appreciated.