On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Greg Erwin wrote: > I have an M-Audio Jamlab usb sound card. It works, but It doesn't seem > to have any simple controls: > > $amixer -c1 controls > numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch' > numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume' > numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Switch' > numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Volume' > > $amixer -c1 scontrols > amixer: Mixer hw:1 load error: Invalid argument > > $alsamixer -c1 > cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument It looks to me like there is a problem in your definition of the hw. Try aplay -l to see what also thinks you have. > > Is there some way to fix this? It's been like this since I got the > card (year or to ago). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user