Re: alsa modules loaded but alsamixer won't work

[Bert Haskins <bhaskins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

S. Gongola wrote:

> On Sat March 27 2004 07:52 pm, Gavin Henry wrote:
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> > On Thursday 25 Mar 2004 02:20, S. Gongola wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I've loaded ALSA rpms and the alsa modules are loaded.
> > > Sound works through oss emulation but when I run alsamixer.
> > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
> > > directory Has anyone had a similar problem.
> > >      
> > This might be due to bad permissions in /dev/snd/*
> >
> > as root run:
> >
> > chmod a+rw /dev/snd/*
> >
> > It should be fine after this.
> >    
> didn't work
> alsamixer gives the same error even as root
Yes, also diid < above > and have no alsaconf or alsaconfig ,,,
reinstall says that the files are installed but find files can't find 
any of them.
Why?????
I am root.

Alsa is weird or at least poorly documented.
I sware that if I ever get it figured out, I'll do a writeup
that meer mortals can understand.

Thanks,
   Bert

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