On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:08 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
YMMV,
It does :-)
In my experience "HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped" has been caused
by broken versions of hdspmixer (that was the case until very recently).
For Ubuntu Studio 11.10 the hdspmixer wasn't in the package alsa-tools,
resp. alsa-tools-gui. Perhaps at this times it was buggy? I had to
compile it myself.