mixer's values

[Sergey Manucharyan]

Well, but the volume control doesn't work with ALSA until I
load snd-mixer-oss module (2.6 kernel) (aumix also works
with oss). I tried to put alsamixer in the command window
(of plugin) - the panel hangs after clicking the volume
control icon.

> Since no one else volunteered an opinion, I will offer a
> tentative one. I am not sure what you mean by "native" but
> XFce4 does not seem to have any sound control features as
> I suppose kmixrc and artsd serve for KDE.  As ALSA
> provides an abundance of features an utilities (including
> saving the state of the mixers), I don't see a need for it
> in XFce.  The OSS sound drivers are now deprecated; so,
> starting to learn ALSA is probably the way to go.  In the
> meantime I don't see much wrong with your solution with
> aumix.