Comment 21 for bug 400629

Well, the thing is that i feel totally invalidated as this sound card used to work perfectly with previous versions of Ubuntu.

And by the way, the only way to get it working is to go through alsamixer, which is a "old" ncurse cli application, to unmute the proper channel.
 I think ideally, this should be working straight away. (as it did in previous versions)

Is there at least a workaround to not have to systematically by hand navigate through the 15 channels present in alsamixer to find the IEC598 channel and unmute it?

The thing is: if you want to be able to get the sound card's internal equalizer (that i often use because of my subwoofer that go way louder if bass are at "normal" level), you NEED to activate IEC598 channel. If you enable Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack, the dont have the equalizer anymore.

 Ho, and if you dont know that the "m" key is the proper shortcut to unmute a channel, there's simply no information about it in alsamixer.