Recording from front mic in Fedora 11

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Hi

I would like to record sounds and use voice chat. In the previous
version, I would change the input source from mic to front mic to do this.

The new GNOME volume preferences in Fedora 11 doesn't expose all the
ALSA controls. This is discussed in many places including:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491372

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495148

I tried pavucontrol and it doesn't seem to allow me to set the input
source either. I had to install xfce4-mixer to finally get this. What is
the recommended solution here?

Rahul