I had to rebuild my system a couple of weeks ago, and I'm having some
trouble with sound. What I want to have work is my SBLive sound card
under alsa.
I did the install from a knoppix disk, and I boot it with the alsa
option. I can play sounds using timidity, aplay, and realaudio (at least),
and record using audacity. kmix seems to work correctly.
However, when I try to run most of the mixers, I get error messages,
and therefore I can't use sound apps that expect to be able to run a
mixer.
I seem to get all the same errors whether I'm root or a user, so I
think the permissions are set up correctly.
Here are some sample error messages:
#pydance
pygame.error: mixer system not initialized
#pysol
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/games/pysol/pysolaudio.py", line 229, in startServer
self.audiodev.init()
error: unable to open audio: No available audio device
PySol: could not connect to pysolsoundserver, sound disabled.
root@tuba:/etc/init.d# ./alsa restart
Storing ALSA mixer settings...failed.
Starting ALSA..../alsa: Error: alsactl restore failed with message 'alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...'.
done.
root@tuba:/etc/init.d#
[~]# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
[~]#
[~]# amixer
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I've done a lot of
googling, and these error messages aren't uncommon, but none of the
suggested solutions seems to work for me.
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