I have problems getting my alsamixer to funktion.. i have installed alsa-lib, alsa-utils and alsa driver as the instructions on alsa:s homepage told me to. Butt when i run alsamixer i get this error:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

What do i do to fix this error??

your sound modules are not loaded. do modprobe <your sound module>. then the proper device files will be created and alsamixer will work. what sound card are you using? and what is your distro?

I have run modprobe on these things:

modprobe snd-ali5451;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

I have RH9 dist and Ali Trident 5451 soundcard. Do you mean that i run modprobe on anything else?.. I copied the modprobe commmand directly from my history so its exactly what i typed(in case i have misspelled something).

you only need to do "modprobe snd-ali5451" - all the dependencies will be resolved and the other sub-modules will load properly. After that you should be able to run alsamixer. If this still fails you can run "strace -eopen alsamixer" - strace is a debugging tool, with the -eopen switch will show you what alsamixer is trying to open. Tell me which opens failed (-1 ENOENT).

did you place the following in your /etc/modules.conf?

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ali5451
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Yes, i have inserted that into etc/modules.conf. And i ran strace -eopen alsamixer and the following opens failed:
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

What does privoxy have to do with strace?

Where do you get privoxy from??...

So... i gave you the information that you needed xexix.. can you give me some advice now, im kind of stuck and your my only hope!!!

I don't know why having the above entries in /etc/modules.conf and running modprobe snd-ali5451 doesn't create the proper devices for you. I don't know how RH9.0 has other things setup.

Here is a stupid hack (non-elegant solution)
"mknod /dev/snd/controlC0 c 116 0"

There isn't any snd catalog in dev, have i done anything wrong in the installation?!?!?!..

Hi guys, I have the same problem... I hope you find a resolution for it. In the meantime I use aumix it's a small commandline mixer. The buggy thing is that every time you want to play sounds you need to adjust your volume as alsa drivers mute by default. I am running a debian, testing/unstable with 2.4.22 kernel and have a via82cxx card. Should you need any additional info let me know.

I tested aumix and got sound.. but i would rather get alsamixer to work properly..

Hello Hello,

Check this link and it will tell ya, It's a lot of trying with Linux and sh*tloads of webbrowsing and reading, I mean good reading... LOL It is so simple!

Just run the snddevices script in the untarred alsa-driver directory

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...003/09/2/85626

It is so silly; alsa says not to run it, but by doing it I got my issue solved!!!
We all ought to break advices and rules more often!

Ciao

EDIT

nm, I 'm a moron.