Re: snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device - my /dev/snd/controlC0 doesn't exist!

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Hi,

AFAIK on FC5 udev is used to create device files and it creates them
when sound driver is loaded (at start).

Could you attach output of lsmod ?
Also what is in /proc/asound/cards ?

Peter Zubaj

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:44 -0800, Troy McGuire wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I started using Fedora Core 5 on a Toshiba Satellite P35-S611 a few 
> months back, and have always had sound.  Today I got to work and 
> attempted to start XMMS.  After taking a long time to run it wouldn't 
> play music, but gave me the message, "Couldn't Open Audio:  Please check 
> that:  Your soundcard is configured properly, You have the correct 
> output plugin selected, No other program is blocking the soundcard".
> 
> I started searching the net for answers, and after reading many posts on 
> several forums I was not able to find a solution to my problem.  I saw 
> where several people had a similar circumstance, and running 
> ./snddevices solved their issue.  However, after doing a "locate 
> snddevices" nothing came up.
> 
> While reading the posts mentioned above I found:
> Typing "alsamixer" gives me:
>     alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> Type "amixer" gives me:
>     amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
> Running "strace -eopen alsamixer" I eventually get....
> 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)
> 
> My sound was working fine last night, I installed a game, but other than 
> that didn't change any settings/devices/configs on my system.  I've 
> tried logging out and rebooting, but it still seems like my sound card 
> doesn't exist anymore :(  Does anyone have good advice for me?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Troy
> troy at spawn or die dot com
> 
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