Anyways, if anyone is trying to use an external sound card as default (disabling the internal audio) and there is no retrovol mixer, or it has disappeared, I discovered that you have to make a text file with the following code in it:
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Config file for retrovol
# This file should reside in the user's home directory and be named .retrovolrc
# Which soundcard to use
#card=hw:0
# Set this to 1 to make the sliders vertical, or 0 for horizontal (only applies to the main window)
#vertical=0
# Window position
#window_x=-1
window_x=583
#window_y=-1
window_y=284
# Window dimensions
#window_width=270
#window_height=256
# Slider dimensions
#slider_width=102
#slider_height=20
#slider_margin=2
#seg_thickness=2
#seg_spacing=1
# Slider colorscheme
#background_color=#000000
#border_color=#000000
#unlit_color=#993300
#lit_color=#FFCC00
# Enable the tray_icon
#enable_tray_icon=1
# Enable the tray_menu
#enable_tray_menu=1
# Background color of tray_icon (default is default GTK background color). Note: the commandline -bg option overrides this
#tray_icon_background_color=#CCCCCC
# Set this to 1 to make the slider on the tray_icon vertical, or 0 for horizontal
#tray_slider_vertical=1
# Tray slider dimensions
#tray_slider_width=20
#tray_slider_height=102
#tray_slider_offset=-1
# Which slider to link with the tray_icon, identified by numid
#tray_control=37
tray_control=2
# The numids of the sliders to display, in order. It is okay to have comments
# after the numbers as long as the numbers are the first non-whitespace
# characters. To get a list of the slider numids, run this command:
# amixer controls
# NOTE: This section must go at the end of the file!
#EXAMPLE:
#sliders:
# 37 #Master Playback Volume
# 15 #Front Playback Volume
# 3 #Surround Playback Volume
sliders:
Give X a restart and hopefully retrovol should be on the taskbar.
This, in combination with etc/ modprobe/ alsa conf and adding things like
options snd-usb-audio index=0 will make an external card the default card.
It's like trying to start an engine with wet spark plugs sometimes!