I have just installed the ALSA (with no errors), and I try to run alsamixer. I receive the error: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory.

This is only a symptom of a larger issue though, which is that I don't have sound. I gotta be able to listen to my Britney Spears.....


My lspci shows onboard sound correctly as:

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)


and lsmod shows:

snd-page-alloc 9208 0
via82cxxx_audio 24056 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 15508 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401 8356 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 73300 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore 6052 4 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio sound]



I am using Fedora.



Any ideas?

You have some modules missing. It look like you've got OSS loaded. All the sound modules should have an "snd" at the beginning. Try unloading via82cxxx_audio and loading the following: snd-via82xx, snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss and snd-seq-oss. Also make sure you have alsa-lib installed (which I think you may have).

I think I may have left out some key information from my earlier post. Here is the full lsmod output:

Module Size Used by Tainted: GF
snd-pcm-oss 44232 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 16280 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx 18148 1 (autoclean)
snd-mpu401-uart 5216 0 (autoclean) [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi 18688 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 6252 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 66492 0 (autoclean) [snd-via82xx]
snd-pcm 83204 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer 19780 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd 47876 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
snd-page-alloc 9208 0 (autoclean) [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
gameport 3380 0 (autoclean) [snd-via82xx]
soundcore 6052 4 (autoclean) [snd]
binfmt_misc 7400 1
parport_pc 18788 1 (autoclean)
lp 8868 0 (autoclean)
parport 36800 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13236 0 (autoclean) (unused)
via-rhine 14864 1
mii 3992 0 [via-rhine]
ipt_REJECT 4344 1 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1080 3 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack 28840 1 (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter 2444 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15264 3 [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
floppy 57020 0 (autoclean)
sg 35852 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17752 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11984 0
scsi_mod 107080 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35488 0
cdrom 33216 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3548 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5180 1 (autoclean)
vfat 12812 1 (autoclean)
fat 38488 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
printer 8928 0
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
hid 24356 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 19976 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 25964 0 (unused)
usbcore 78368 1 [printer hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
mousedev 5428 1 (autoclean)
input 5824 0 (autoclean) [keybdev hid mousedev]
ext3 70532 2
jbd 51732 2 [ext3]

It looks like I've got most of the stuff loaded that you mentioned, or the equivalent.

Yes, I have installed alsa-lib.

I can open other mixers, just not alsamixer. The other mixers have no errors, but I still have zero sound. The soundcard detection generates the error: The via82cxxx_audio driver could not be loaded. This soundcard may not be compatible with Red Hat Linux.

Any other ideas?

I think this fails because it's trying to load an OSS driver (the old kind) when you've got the ALSA drivers (the new kind of driver) loaded. The two are incompatible with each other.

My other question is what version of ALSA do you have (you check with cat /proc/asound/version) and how did you install ALSA?

I'm having problems with the same via chipset VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97. module snd-via82xx. Using kernel 2.6.6 or 2.6.7
I can play music cd's in KDE-3.2.3-1 but when I try to run the
sound test on two different Athlon i686 boxes , I get a static noise
out of one box and no sound out of the other box.
I can't get audio out when I play Vedio like xine or Flash-plugin on
mozilla.
There's got to be a module problem some place.
I submitted a bug report on Fedora, bug# 128941

Jim Tate

Sorry for the delay...was in middle of cross-country move.


My ALSA version is 1.0.5a. I compiled the code and installed using the instructions and downloads from the ALSA-project.org website for my Analog Devices onboard SoundMax codec with VIA chipset (see ALSA instructions here: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=via82xx).

I followed these instructions to the letter and came up with no errors.

Any ideas?

What version of gcc are you using? Have you tried using the new 1.06a driver?