Comment 27 for bug 637947

hmm, not so well, i just found that this only works if "alsactl init" is called, which seems to be gone from our setup completely (you can call it manually but that seems awkward ... another way to use this as a slightly cleaner hack migh be to call alsactl init from a udev rule if the device is initialized)

so in this light the only actually proper fix is to use the SDP4430.conf file but fix it so it gets properly executed ...

the above fix is just a better alternative to the hack the amixer.sh script provides but requires a one line patch to libasound0 which i'm not sure the release team would be happy to accept its a tad less evil but stil evil.