This is highly unlikely to be an alsa-utils issue. Rather, at least one end seems to be routed through the pulse plugin (configuration shipped by the pulseaudio binary package). I suppose we could hack the alsactl utility to also ignore pulse (i.e., what we do with amixer and alsamixer).
** Changed in: alsa-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- alsactl depends on X11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557016 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs