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    alsa drives me crazy!!

    I have trouble with my Yamaha soundcard (ymfpci, ym744, hoontech xg). I've connected it using an spdif to my reciever. All i have to do is to unmute some channels using alsamixer. But it won't work.

    Code:
    root@paula:/etc/init.d# ./alsa-autoconfig
    Preparing modules for alsa...
    Building card database..
    Configuring ymfpci...
    Running update-modules...
    Creating snddevices...
    Setting default volumes...
    root@paula:/etc/init.d# alsamixer
    
    alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
    What can I check now? I have played around with self built driver from www.alsa-project.org and the apt-get port form testing.

    Well this make be feel dizzy.. I spent the whole day and can't start alsamixer. It suxxs.

    \thomsen

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    Re: alsa drives me crazy!!

    it's me again. I checked this:

    Code:
    root@paula:/proc/asound# tail /proc/asound/cards
    --- no soundcards ---
    I suppose it should be something else than this ?

    \thomsen

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    Re: alsa drives me crazy!!

    ahja. Some good news:

    I've found out that in

    Code:
     /etc/modules
    always the "ymfpci" was loaded. This probably wrong. Then when doing this:

    Code:
    % rmmod ymfpci
    % modprobe snd-ymfpci
    % alsamixer
    everything went fine. So my solution was: Removing the wrong entry and let the programs itself load the module when needed! So just comment out "ymfpci" and try it again.

    But this brings a new problem to me: How can I store/configure the volume settings using knoppix only? The problem is:

    Code:
    % amixer set bla bla
    won't work, since alsa-utils aren't installed. So any comments on this?

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    Please try add
    Code:
    aumix -w 60 -v 60
    to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

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    Quote Originally Posted by NikiBob
    Please try add
    to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
    thx for your suggestion. However, it did not solve the problem this way. But it brought some new ideas to me. I could remember, that the alsa-util "amixer" was able to activate the IEC958 (spdif) . However, all those simple mixer programs, including "aumix" were'nt able to activate this very unique sound channel form my Hoontech XG yamaha chipset.

    The solution: download the alsa-util package using the "-d" option from apt-get, which will only download but NOT install the package. If downloaded, depack it your self and install "amixer" by hand. Then you put this in bootmisc.sh

    Code:
    %amixer -q set IEC958 on
    and voila, everything is fine. But don't forget to add your local user to the audio group in /etc/group

    \thomsen

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