Comment 18 for bug 187848

My concrete problem is that the front panel mic input doesn't seem to work. While troubleshooting this, I have read enough to actually almost understand the interface jumble that is the gnome-volume-control applet, but nowhere near enough to understand whether the actual problem is already reported.

In any event, I feel that one of the things which makes this inordinately hard to sort out is that the g-v-c user interface hides away relevant controls and displays irrelevant controls. If it were better designed, I would not have to Google to find out which controls I can ignore, and which ones I will need to enable in the Preferences so I can twiddle them.