Comment 3 for bug 394282

I have found another problem, or perhaps a cause.
Gnome volume control does not work at all. I tried opening and setting it up, but the settings do not actually change.
Every time I re-open it, recording is on "mute."
When I run alsamixer instead, the recording level has sometimes dropped to zero.
Setting it higher does not work, even when I leave both applications open, and turn up the volume.