James, Thanks for this. I am a member of the audio group, so problem there. The sound modules seem to be loaded OK. The relevant bit of the output from lsmod is: $ lsmod |grep snd snd_emu10k1_synth 8192 0 snd_emux_synth 35456 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 8064 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 7680 1 snd_emux_synth snd_emu10k1 137248 2 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_ac97_codec 100644 1 snd_emu10k1 ac97_bus 3200 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss 44672 0 snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 80388 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 5760 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 10244 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_dummy 4740 0 snd_seq_oss 33152 0 snd_seq_midi 9600 0 snd_rawmidi 25728 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 8448 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 53232 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 24324 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 9228 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 54660 15 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 8800 1 snd $ So that looks OK. I'm a bit confused about the rest of your comment. The only file called devfs is a directory which has two subdirectories, neither of which seems to have anything interesting in it (one is empty). And I can't find a file called snddevices anywhere, but might have mistyped (I'm not currently on the Linux machine and can't get to it to check up). $ ls -l /etc/devfs total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-16 00:29 conf.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-09 14:33 devices.d /etc/devfs/conf.d$ ls nvidia-kernel-nkc /etc/devfs/devices.d$ ls /etc/devfs/devices.d$ Am I missing a file? And if I can get it from somewhere, when do I execute it? Once only, or on every boot? Best regards, Peter mailto:alsa@xxxxxxxxx www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Friday, February 29, 2008, 10:08:45 PM, you wrote: >> Typing "alsamixer" in a terminal window gives: >> "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device" > This error normally happens when it can't find the devices. Is your user > in the audio group? Are you running udev/devfs? If not, did you run > ./snddevices ? Are the sound modules loaded? lsmod > HTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
